----- Original Message ----- From: <davidmcr at aol.com> To: <Seth17279 at aol.com>; <asdnet at igc.topica.com>; <socialistsunmoderated at debs.pinko.net>; <SP-campaign at egroups.com> Cc: <red-green at onelist.com>; <ymoran at hotmail.com>; <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: [ASDnet] Historical footnote re Correction on the Kerrey (Kerry) involved
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> << Subj: RE: [ASDnet] Correction on the Kerrey (Kerry) involved
> Date: 5/8/01 12:33:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From: debsian at pacbell.net (Michael Pugliese)
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> Historical footnote: The Senator Kerry from Massachusetts,
> was in the early 70's a leader in Vietnam Veterans Against The
> War. Same period of time, Jack McCloskey, who I got to know before
> he died about 5 yrs. ago, was another. Great guy, big heart.
> New book on V V A W, by Gerald Nicosia, looks real good, lots
> of interview and archival material released under the Freedom
> of Information Act. And remember there is a split (aargh, you
> know those pro-imperialists in VVAW!), which I think is RCP,
> called Vietnam Veterans Against the War- Anti-Imperialist. Michael
> Pugliese >>
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> I'm looking forward to Nicosia book, hadn't realized it was coming. Yes,
the
> RCP split the VVAW. I have never forgiven them for this. The vets needed
each
> other, not hard line Marxist/Leninist/Maoist politics. They had been
through
> something more unspeakable than most wars - in that this one had no social
> sanction, no brass bands, no parades to help offset the murders, deaths,
drug
> addictions. I remember those guys and they were great, like a family.
Then
> the RCP imposed politics and split them.
>
> Great irony: one of the RCP kids (now an RCP man) was originally a
Goldwater
> supporter, volunteered (if memory serves), became an anti-war vet, was the
> first Viet vet allowed into Vietnam, when he was part of a three person
> delegation to Hanoi that I was on in 1971. Joe Urgo his name. Joe later
> became a member of RCP and as such had to support the Chinese invasion of
> Vietnam.
>
> Sometimes our own politics can be as horrifying as the politics and
policies
> of our opposition.
>
> David
>
> The preceding is a personal opinion. Try not to post more than daily.
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