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War Is Not Innate
Bill and Marvin interview John Horgan author of the book "The End of War." Humans are not born with a war gene. Horgan argues that war is socially and politically conditioned and can be unlearned and avoided.
- Length: 52:35 minutes (24.07 MB)
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"The Bunker Project"
Join Bill and me (Marvin Simmons) when we will interview Bud Brown and Robert Helmick of "The Bunker Project". Bud is a Viet Nam veteran and professor at Western Oregon University. Robert Helmick is a Gulf War veteran. They will explan what "The Bunker Project" is all about. Bud Brown also works with veterans involved with the justice system.
- Length: 53:00 minutes (48.52 MB)
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Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance tell their stories
Hosts Marvin Simmons and Bill Bires speak with members of the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance. The group is working to create a community of people who desire to find justice, answers and support for the generational victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. It was founded by children of Vietnam Veterans to serve as a voice for the children of Vietnam Veterans including second and third generation victims of Agent Orange and Dioxin Exposures worldwide. The members of the group believe in empowering each other to hold the companies and governments responsible for causing devastation and suffering to our generations.
- Length: 54:30 minutes (49.9 MB)
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The Bonus Soldiers March and the Kellogg–Briand Pact
Today Veteran's Voice presents an archival program on the Bonus Soldiers March, which started here in Portland. The Bonus Army was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. They also discuss the Kellogg–Briand Pact (also called the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War or the World Peace Act) which was an agreement signed on August 27, 1928, by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy. The Kellogg–Briand Pact is named after its authors: Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand.
- Length: 54:52 minutes (25.12 MB)
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David Swanson, about his new book The Military Industrial Complex at 50
Hosts Marvin Simmons and Bill Bires of Northwest Vets for Peace speak with writer, reporter and speaker David Swanson, about his new book
The Military Industrial Complex at 50. He is also the author of
Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union,
War Is A Lie, and
When the World Outlawed War.
- Length: 33:25 minutes (5.74 MB)
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Mark Thompson on his recent article, "The Other 1 Percent"
Hosts Northwest Vets for Peace interview Time Magazine investigative reporter Mark Thompson about his recent article, "The Other 1 Percent," on the increasing disconnect and distance between the military and the rest of the U.S. population.
Thompson has reported extensively from Afghanistan and Iraq, reporting on the progress of the conflicts there and the unexpected lack of armor for the U.S. military, and has written four major pieces on the true costs of the Iraq war -- an early look at the war's wounded, a study of the U.S. troops killed in a single week, the lonely vigil of an Ohio family whose son was the first American soldier in this war to be listed as missing in action, whose remains were ultimately recovered in March, 2008, and the death of a GI at the hands of Army medicine a year after he was slightly wounded in Iraq.
- Length: 50:55 minutes (46.61 MB)
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Revisiting Vietnam; Survival Guilt and Diagnosing PTSD and the Reintegration of Veterans
Marvin Simmons and Bill Bires of Northwest Vets for Peace discuss Marvin's recent three-month visit to Vietnam. They'll also talk about the "Survival Guilt" used to diagnose PTSD. And, if there is time, they will look at veterans reintegrating back into society.
- Length: 53:11 minutes (48.69 MB)
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Women on War Part 2
Today's show features Part 2 of "Woman on War," a panel discussion from the Veterans' Voice archive. This program was initially broadcast in the early 90's. Carolyn Mills interviews women who have been affected by war.
- Length: 53:06 minutes (48.61 MB)
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Veteran's Voice 10/21/2011
An interview with Don Blackburn, Viet Nam veteran-peace activist-poet,who will talk about "All You Have Given: Meditations on War, Peace & Reconciliation" his book of poems. He will also read from his book.
Don Blackburn was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1947 and raised in Southern California. Boyhood interests included sports, surfing, music and reading. He graduated from Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne, California in 1965. He served in the U.S. Army 1966-68, in Viet Nam 1967-68, attached to the 116th transportation company for most of the time, in and around Cam Ranh Bay; he was also at Long Binh and Bear Cat for a short time. He graduated from Humboldt State University in 1973 with a B.A. in English and went on to earn an M.A. at Humboldt in English/Teaching of Writing. Don taught at high school and university level for 27 years. He is a published poet and short story writer. Don maintains a home on forest land in Bandon, Oregon, and lives part of each year in Viet Nam where he volunteers with several humanitarian projects. He is a practicing Buddhist and a member of Veterans For Peace. Don Blackburn also belongs to a veterans group that does presentations in schools, works with veterans' issues, etc.
- Length: 38:17 minutes (35.05 MB)
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Jess Goodell on her memoir: "Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq"
Veteran's Voice Hosts Marvin Simmonss and Bill Bires interview Jess Goodell on her memoir Shade it Black, Death and After in Iraq.
In 2008, CBS' Chief Foreign Correspondent, Lara Logan, candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: "Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. What does that look like? Who in America knows what that looks like? Because I know what that looks like, and I feel responsible for the fact that no one else does..." Logan's query raised some important yet ignored questions: How did the remains of American service men and women get from the dusty roads of Fallujah to the flag-covered coffins at Dover Air Force Base? And what does the gathering of those remains tell us about the nature of modern warfare and about ourselves? These questions are the focus of Jess Goodell's story, Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq.
Jess enlisted in the Marines immediately after graduating from high school in 2001, and in 2004 she volunteered to serve in the Marine Corps' first officially declared Mortuary Affairs unit in Iraq. Her platoon was tasked with recovering and processing the remains of fallen soldiers.
- Title: Jess Goodell on her memoir: "Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq"
- Producer: Marvin Simmons, Bill Bires
- Length: 52:32 minutes (24.05 MB)
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Oregonian article
Congrats on having the Oregonian notice your fine work ('s about time, huh?)
Good job, guys!
Martha
Feres Doctrine and Health Care Reform
Dear Reader,
My husband and I are disabled veterans, and co-creators of the website called http://www.erniesfootprints.com. We developed this site to tell our story of the military medical malpractice and gross injustices we faced at the hands of military doctors and disloyal service members which ultimately led to our son Ernie's premature birth and subsequent death hours later.
In our year long research of Military Malpractice we have been following a bill that was presented to Congress by Congressman Maurice Hinchey called The Carmelo Rodriguez Military Malpractice Accountability Act of 2009 H.R. 1478. This bill, if passed will allow the following:
CLAIMS BY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AGAINST THE UNITED STATES FOR CERTAIN INJURIES CAUSED BY IMPROPER MEDICAL CARE. PLEASE ASK YOURSELF THIS:
Q. Should military doctors deny prenatal care to pregnant soldiers?
Q. Should doctors be allowed to do the following without the fear of being sued:
Botch operations, prescribe wrong medication, misdiagnose medical conditions, ignore important
health information concerning their patients?
The Feres Doctrine is a law that doesn't allow military service members to sue for any Medical Screw Ups, including those that aren't combat related. Feres also bars suits of any kind brought by service members. When one enlists, they give up the right to redress, PERIOD! God forbid there is ever a draft....
Many bills have been presented to Congress to Overturn the Feres Doctrine, but NONE have come as close to being voted to law like H.R. 1478 has. Many would like to know what the bottom line of Health Care and Tort Reform would be like? Here's the answer; FERES DOCTRINE! Could you imagine what will happen if health care reform allows your doctors to be held unaccountable for medical malpractice!?
You can choose to do something about this, or ignore it all together and hope that you or someone you love are never faced with having to receive careless medical treatment, but then CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, because your constitutional rights have been revoked as ours have been!
Don't ignore this issue like many congressmen and various reporting agencies have. Fighting for human rights, your rights, our rights, everyones rights, should not have been the daunting task it has been for us. It's time to put aside our bread and circus and take the appropriate action. Many of our political powers favor the Feres Doctrine and don't see fit to overturn it, and won't unless people like ourselves organize and voice our concerns. LOUDLY!
Very few people know of the Feres Doctrine. This must change! Until this law is overturned, it is our responsibility to take and active role in educating and protecting impressionable young men and women about the rights they will be losing if they enlist in the military, and warning them of those who value "military discipline" over the lives of Americans serving in the armed forces today!
If people are informed of the rights they'll lose due to the Feres Doctrine, and still enlist in the service, then they were informed and it's their choice to do so right or wrong. However, recruiters aren't telling them. People aren't talking about it, and our news media aren't interested. We couldn't protect our son Ernie, but we can at least protect others from losing their loved ones. Knowledge is power. If the Feres Doctrine is widely defended as it has been for past 60 years than it shouldn't have an effect on military recruitment should it? Especially now when they need it the most, and if it does, perhaps the needed changes will be made. It is up to all of us to make this happen.
Since this is information our country's leaders are not affording you the opportunity to know up front, we are providing you with it. Supporting our cause supports human rights. For more information please visit www.erniesfootprints.com
THANK YOU!
T-
U.S.S. LIberty
I am a regular listener to your invormative and important show. However, I am wondering why I have never heard a show on the deadly attack and immoral cover up of the U.S.S. Liberty ? Have you done a program on this attack and the and the long term impact on our service men cuased by the denial and cover up? Senator McCains father held a very strong opinion on this horrible incident. Perhaps this is an apporperate time to discuss or revisit this historic event. Thank you for your time, I look forward to hearing from you Patti McKniff
U.S.S. Liberty
vets cant win
Gmorning KBOO, by all means read this one out loud and over the radio. Maybe it will help open up some eyes about some vets out here coming back from different operations from around the world.
From the years of 1996-2000, i served in the navy on board an aircraft carrier. from 2001-present i have been attached to various commands with the seabees. My MOS or job skill rating for the navy is known as Equipment operator. I am an E-5. or the army equivilant to sergeant. I have all kinds of equipment training. Yet, any place i go to as a civilian wants me to have licenses from civilian schools to get into their "job opening". I personnally have contacted said schools, and they have told me itd cost in excess of $3,000 plus for me to go through their school. But all my military licenses and trainings do not count even tho it is over some of the same pieces of equipment. I am now in the reserves and still participating with different things with the military.
I recently did my part in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. The only place that I found would hire me for any job was through a temp agency, and only at a barely above minimum wage job. In my opinion this totally bites. It is taking me 2 jobs, one of which is a 40 hour a week, and the other I work on the weekends with a security company. Both of these jobs are paying me $8 an hour. All of this just to make sure my ends meet. Rent, car payments, insurances etc, are all a taxing thing. I am struggling with no end in sige except to get reactivated and sent back to an OIF-OEF area. Just so I can pull myself out of this hole. Especially when "noone" is either hiring or willing to hire a vet with military backgrounds that the vet has skills in.
Yes I have even contacted unions for jobs. I still have to go through their apprenticeship training/school over their equipment. All of course at a fee based transition for me. ugh.
But of course this is just me trying to find a job within my certain job skills. Is this so wrong for me wanting to continue in this general direction?
OIF-OEF, Seabees, been there done that. You broke it we fixed it.
vets cant win
After reading your plea for work I do think you need to remember that you are now in the civilian world.
Yes, you sound like you have a lot of qualifications and skills in certain areas, but to hire you with out you obtaining the necessary licenses puts the employer at risk of breaking laws and possibly being sued. Businesses have to be compliant with all these things in order to protect themselves and other employees on the job. Union appreticships are a wonderful way to start and you will be getting paid while learning. Keep looking in that direction and i beleive you will find your place. The rest of us are working 2-3 jobs here in the civilian world to stay afloat. Please dont feel like you are the only one. Good luck to you. Dont forget to vote.
Music selection
You may want to take a look at the song "Dear, Mr. President" on the 'Hail to the Thief II', a collabrative CD compiled by George Mann and Julius Margolin. This should be in the KBOO library, Robin Shanti, on the Dharma Wheel, plays from this series (there are three) frequently.
Best regards,
John
SW PDX
KBOO member
Songs written by a Vietnam Veteran
Hi: I'm a service-connected disabled vet who is also a songwriter. Please have a listen to the songs I've written from a very personal place.
My Best,
Walt Cronin
SHORT BIO
Walt Cronin collaborated with his former, fellow songwriter, on their debut CD "The Gousters" in 2005. It remained in the top 50 alternative country category on Roots Music Report for 60 weeks. Walt is a former navy corpsman (medic) that served with a Marine platoon in Vietnam in 1970. His songs are memoirs of the heartache of war and it's aftermath with a beautiful love ballad thrown into the mix. Staying true to the folk history of societal woes with some bright new tunes finish off this eclectic blend of strong lyrical content and melodies.
Since the release of their debut album ‘The Gousters” in 2005, Walt Cronin has continued to compose, on his own. This CD written and sung by Cronin has many of the elements of the first CD. “ It is definitely in the folk americana tradition,” says Marty Beal, the producer and arranger of Walt’s CD from the Racketroom in Santa Ana, CA where all the recordings took place.
Marty wore many hats in this musical composition playing most of the instruments all the while, enhancing Walt’s creative style with musical expertise. Walt, the singer / songwriter on this, his self-titled CD has brought to light his own heartfelt melodies which are the result of many influences from sixties musings with a contemporary folk rock feel.
Thanks in advance for your possible consideration,
Walt Cronin
www.thegousters.com
www.myspace.com/gousters ( 6 songs)
Viet Nam
Hello Walt,
Was going over some past email and came across yours. Hope this catches you in good health. I'm in Viet Nam writung you from Nha Trang. Came over with another Nam vet. Was in HCMC, Hue, and Hanoi. Now in Nha Trang but going back to Hanoi on the 24th of Oct then home to Oregon on Nov 1st. Got any more Viet Nam songs to start one of our Veterans Voice Radio Shows?
Hoa Binh,
Marvin
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Bill and Marvin,
Hello! I read about you in The Oregonian and my gratitude goes out to both of you for your program! I listened to the interview that you did with Bob Chenowith I thought it was great! However, I didn't get to listen to the ending because it was cut off.
This may not be the place or appropriate but I have a few questions for you and this is the only way I know how to get in touch with you.
I will be the first to admit I don't know the history of the Vietnam War I only know of family and friends who lived and witnessed the war.
I have a friend who is a Vietnam Vet and I asked him if I should contact you and he said yes. I,also, asked him about my student and he said yes, I should encourage him to write his story.
So, here are my questions:
1. Can anybody join your lunch on Fridays?
2. Have you ever interviewed or would you consider interviewing a Vietnamese Vet? The reason I ask is because I have a student (I'm a volunteer tutor at PCC I teach English) who is Vietnamese and he's a Vet. He had both legs blown off and I'm encouraging him to write his story. (It's like the Japanese that were interned the stories must be told). Along with the American Vets I believe the Vietnamese and others need to tell their stories.
3. I'm a Korean adoptee and I understand what's it's like to have a country and not have a country.
4. I'm a huge supporter of Vets!
Thank you for all you've done and do!
Brenda
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