A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War Publication Year:
1999 The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is
perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student
protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in
American history in which a substantial number of military
personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress.
In The Turning, Andrew Hunt reclaims the history of the Vietnam
Veterans Against the War (VVAW), an organization that
transformed the antiwar movement by placing Vietnam veterans in
the forefront of the nationwide struggle to end the war.
Misunderstood by both authorities and radicals alike, VVAW
members were mostly young men who had served in Vietnam and
returned profoundly disillusioned with the rationale for the war
and with American conduct in Southeast Asia. Angry, impassioned,
and uncompromisingly militant, the VVAW that Hunt chronicles in
this first history of the organization posed a formidable threat
to America's Vietnam policy and furth