In the meantime, I just hope it drives a few people to learn a bit more about the history of the movement that spawned the hearings, and about the brave men and women who went to war, came home, and dedicated their lives to ending the conflict. Maybe they knew about the hearings, maybe they didn’t, maybe they just thought it sounded cool. I don’t presume to know what the folks at Marvel were shooting for when they named a popcorn movie after the Winter Soldier hearings. It asked Americans to face the atrocities that were being committed, by their children, in their name. It was an incredibly painful, incredibly important moment in the discourse around the Vietnam War. The soldiers who testified spoke about villages being destroyed, women and children being killed, and helped reveal to the public the secret war in Laos in which my father participated, and which the government was still denying had even occurred. In the Winter Soldier Hearings, VVAW presented testimony from American servicemembers who’d participated in the commission of war crimes. My father is a disabled veteran who helped start an organization called Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
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