Why Vietnam and not Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya

The focus of the blog, since it kicked back up, has correctly been on materials published on this day, or during this month in GI papers between 1967, when the first issue of the Bond appeared and 1975, when Vietnam was finally unified and US involvement in that civil war ended. It would be easy and is indeed tempting, to use this blog as a platform to comment on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, but I will leave that up to people who write more succinctly and are better informed than me. Likewise, it would be easy and is in fact tempting  to rant about the inequities of the war currently being waged on us by parties at the national and local level and their corporate/religious masters and funders but their are more than enough persons on facebook and sites like DailyKos, the Huffington Post and  Talking Points Memo to fill that vacuum with justified outrage. So I will limit myself to the materials published in the GI press, which will include the reproduction of whole issues, individual articles and cartoons. These materials were published at great risk to those who penned and published them and they sadly have been written out of history. This is an immoral act and an unconscionable lie.