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"Four decades ago, Ho Van Thanh fled the fighting in his native Vietnam, disappearing into the jungle with his infant son, Ho Van Lang. This week, father and son emerged for the first time - an enfeebled Thanh carried in a stretcher, and Lang wearing only a loincloth made of tree bark. According to the Vietnamese newspaper Dan Tri, Ho Van Thanh, now 82, was last seen in 1973 running into the jungle, after his wife and two other children were killed by a bomb or land mine near his home."

"In 1968, Milton Glaser and Lee Savage made a very short, totally silent, anti-war film called "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam." "It was for a thing called the Angry Arts Festival," Glaser told Brian Galindo of BuzzFeed this week, "which was a kind of protest event, inviting artists to produce something to represent their concerns about the war in Vietnam and a desire to end it." The film, which has long been so hard to find that rumors circulated about its demise, was uploaded to YouTube earlier this yea"

"In the Academy Award-winning documentary Hearts and Minds, Daniel Ellsberg, who secretly copied and then released the Pentagon Papers, offers a catalog of presidential lying about the U.S. role in Vietnam: Truman lied. Eisenhower lied. Kennedy lied. Johnson "lied and lied and lied." Nixon lied. (Painting by Robert Shetterly, American's Who Tell the Truth series) Ellsberg concludes: "The American public was lied to month by month by each of these five administrations. As I say, it's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to; it's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public."

"This second edition of Howard Zinn on War is a collection of 26 short writings chosen by the author to represent his thinking on a subject that concerned and fascinated him throughout his career. He reflects on the wars against Iraq, the war in Kosovo, the Vietnam War, World War II, and on the meaning of war generally in a world of nations that can't seem to stop destroying each other. "