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DESCRIPTION:            Come and join Revolution Books in welcoming Deborah Nelson as 
 she  discusses her new book\nThe War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront 
 the Truth about U.S. War Crimes.\n            This book by Pulitzer-Prize 
 winning journalist Deborah Nelson, reveals a massive cover-up of war crimes 
 against Vietnamese people – crimes that have remained hidden for more 
 than thirty years. THE WAR BEHIND ME: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth 
 about U.S. War Crimes (Basic Books; Hardcover; Pub date: November 2008), is 
 excellent investigative reporting and a determined search to uncover the 
 truth.\n           The truth, she discovers, is that the My Lai massacre 
 was no anomaly. The War Behind Me shows that, without a doubt, atrocities 
 were routinely committed against ordinary Vietnamese people during the US 
 war of aggression. Teenagers were raped and then shot. Peasants were killed 
 in their rice fields. Mothers and babies were obliterated and thrown into 
 shallow graves. Mayhem, murder and massacre by U.S. troops defined that 
 war. The interviews with veterans who resisted these crimes and tried to 
 expose them are wrenching. The interviews with veterans who took part in 
 these crimes are chilling.\n        The significance of this book is not 
 only in revealing a shamefully hidden history. Today the US is waging two 
 wars in countries that are far away and as we read these stories of 
 innocent lives cut short, and hear the undeniable statistics -- we need to 
 confront both the war behind us, and especially now to confront the need to 
 resist, and stop the war crimes going on in our name today.\n          
 Deborah Nelson will be joined by Jamie Henry, a veteran who spoke out 
 against the atrocities he witnessed in Vietnam and testified at the Winter 
 Soldier Investigation in 1971.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/21/18552509.php
SUMMARY:The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425  Channing Way (in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off 
 of Telegraph Ave) Wheelchair accessible. Donations accepted.\nBerkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/21/18552509.php
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