During the early 1980s, while first living in Franklin County, Massachusetts, I became active with other Vietnam veterans in response to the myriad physical, psychological, and social problems we seemed to be experiencing. I was active in a local Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) chapter, and subsequently became director of the state-funded Western Massachusetts Agent Orange Information Project, and later, executive director of a veterans outreach center.
I experienced the beginning of awareness shortly after participating with the U.S. military in 1969, in the incomprehensible marauding of Vietnam. I realized just how culturally conditioned we were to be violent in the name of good.
As with many others, my experiences during the Vietnam War raised questions I had never before conceived. An awakening began as I confronted apparent lies and distortions about my understandings of the war, of U.S. society, and of myself.
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