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The spot is being paid for by an anti-war group called True Majority, run by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame. It urges Bush to seek a peaceful resolution and to allow the inspections to continue.more...

  Part VI - The VVA - The Vietnam Victims of America B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley Exclusive to NewsMax.com: Excerpts from Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed Of its Heroes And its History by B.G. Burkett and Glenna WhitleyTo order Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heros and its History please Click HereWhen Joe Yandle and Eddie Fielding drove up to the liquor store in Boston that June evening in 1972, they were looking for quick drug money. The two men had pulled half-a-dozen stickups already that day. Yandle, frantic for his...

Part III - Will the Real Vietnam Vet Stand Up? B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley Exclusive to NewsMax.com: Excerpts from Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed Of its Heroes And its Historyby B.G. Burkett & Glenna WhitleyTo order Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heros and its History please Click Here America won World War II. Vietnam was "the only war America ever lost." In World War II, everybody pulled together. Vietnam was the class war, the war in which wet-behind-the-ears, poor, uneducated, minority men were chopped to pieces while college boys thumbed...

Part II - Welcome Home, Babykiller B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley To order Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heros and its History please Click Here In the mid-Eighties, while raising money to build the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial, I tried to interest reporters in writing about the memorial only to be asked about homelessness or the supposedly widespread affliction of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Vietnam vets. Often, I visited the office of a corporate leader or philanthropist and asked for a donation to the memorial only to be told: "Those losers? Why the...

  Part I - Rambo and the Bogus War Heroes By B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley To order Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heros and its History by B.G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley please Click Here Scruffy John Rambo, carrying a bedroll and wearing a field jacket emblazoned with an American flag, stares down at a quaint country house by the side of a sparkling lake, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. A black woman hangs freshly laundered clothes on a line. The first scene in the 1982 movie First Blood appears idyllic. But...