The Vietnam Veterans Against the War were heroes then, and they deserve to be remembered as heroes today.’ -Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College How could that be, when, as Hunt shows, many of the most committed and eloquent opponents of the Vietnam war were themselves veterans of the conflict in Southeast Asia. ‘Explodes one of the most persistent and pernicious myths attached to the 1960s: that the anti-war movement was anti-GI and anti-veteran. Hunt’s complex and moving history is a vital corrective to accounts which equate the anti-war movement with student activists as well as to those who persist in seeing veterans as passive victims.’ -Marilyn B. ‘A splendid addition to the growing literature on Vietnam veterans and their experiences during and after the war. At along last we can again hear the voices of the thousands of courageous veterans who refused to be silent about the immoral war in Indochina.’ -Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

‘This extraordinary and deeply moving history explodes all the encrusted stereotypes of GIs on one side of the barricades and anti-war protestors on the other. It is a disturbing story, one that Hunt tells well.’ – Choice His study also adds a significant dimension to the literature on the experience of Vietnam veterans… ‘Hunt deliciously complicates the history of the 1960s by introducing a protest element not bound to college campuses or the counterculture. A superb history, and a valuable addition to understanding the turbulent 1960s era.’ -Terry H. ‘What a splendid job! This evocative book tells the impassioned story of young men who served, returned, and then mustered even more courage by standing up against their country often while being called baby killers’ by antiwar radicals and ‘cowards’ by the World War II generation.

David Dellinger by Andrew E. Hunt