As the Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit visits Colorado University- Boulder, accomplished poets will gather for reading poems of war, memory, and reconciliation. Their works help us to understand the war in Vietnam and its profound consequences. Read more about each of the featured poets below: Jan Barry Jan Barry is a poet, author and journalist. As a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, Barry coordinates Warrior Writers workshops and programs for veterans and family members in New Jersey. Born Jan Barry Crumb in 1943 in Ithaca, NY, he grew up in a rural village in the Finger Lakes reg ..read more

Spring 2023, Ron Carver traveled to Saigon for the launch of the Vietnamese-language edition of the Waging Peace in Vietnam companion book, published by the War Remnants Museum. Talk Vietnam interviewed editor Carver along with veterans Ronald L. Haeberle and John Kent for their monthly magazine-style, tv show, produced in English and screened on Vietnam’s public television on the anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam. The show tells the story of how the exhibit came about and the impact of the thousands of US soldiers and veterans who opposed the war. View here ..read more

Son My 1968. (Photo: Ronald L. Haeberle) When Ron Haeberle returned to My Lai 4 for the 50th anniversary commemoration of the My Lai massacre in 2018, he noticed his photographs on display in the museum were not being credited to him as the photographer or acknowledging his copyright. Furthermore, he found certain captions to be historically inaccurate. This caused a bout of contention that persisted several years. Haeberle had been clear from the start that he would not ask for or accept monetary compensation now or in the future from museums in Vietnam but was insistent about factual r ..read more

Horrific. 54 years after our troops massacred 504 innocent souls in My Lai, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, grand children of the survivors and thousands of other children daily risk mutilation and death from the hundreds of thousand of landmines and bombs we left behind. We can make a difference. We can help fund the expansion of a successful effort co-founded by Vietnam veteran Chuck Searcy 21 years ago this month through the Friends of Project Renew. The organization currently needs to raise $100,000 to broaden their efforts in Quang Ngai Province, where the My Lai massacre unfolded in 1968 ..read more

A highlight of our month-long exhibit at the University of San Francisco was our closing event on April 26, where Craig McNamara launched his new memoir, Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, From Vietnam to Today (Little Brown).   Craig is the son of Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who was known as the architect of the War in Vietnam. The USF book launch was the first stop on Craig's nationwide tour. In the video below, you can see the recording of Craig at our USF event introduced by Professor Jonathan Gr ..read more

In a direct appeal, former American soldiers who opposed U.S. wars in Vietnam and Iraq are urging Russian soldiers to "listen to their conscience" when ordered to fight an illegal war of aggression against the people of Ukraine. Signers are asking the United States and the governments of Europe to grant asylum and provide legal assistance for Russian soldiers who refuse to participate in Putin's war. The signers of the open letter are American veterans from the Vietnam or Iraq wars who protested, published antiwar newspapers or blogs, refused orders and deserted. Many faced legal charges or ..read more

We have recently developed two new small exhibits to complement our main touring exhibit. They will pair well with the original exhibit and we intend for them to be displayed concurrently at the same venue or at another venue nearby. Sharing the exhibits will allow for maximum local exposure to a greater audience. We will be eager to announce events featuring these new exhibits soon! Learn about and preview these exciting new exhibits below: My Lai: A Massacre Took 504 Souls, and Shook the World For the first time ever, Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle has given permission to create an e ..read more

Dissenting POWs tells the little-known story of who spoke out against the war and why – which for co-author Tom Wilber is a very personal tale. One dissenter profiled in the book is his father Gene, a career officer in the Navy and squadron commander shot down over North Viet Nam in 1968. This fascinating book was reviewed by Vietnam veteran and poet W.D. Ehrhart. He comments on the book’s illumination of the history of those who spoke out against the war while in captivity ..read more

There is good news on efforts to stop the harassment of photographer Ron Haeberle. The highest ranks of the government in Hanoi have ordered the Son My Memorial Site museum to stop defaming Haeberle, to acknowledge that he holds the copyright, and to remove his photographs from the museum until the museum agrees to change the label to acknowledge that, in spite of the misleading caption in the LIFE magazine article from November 1969, the two children shown lying on a trail in Haeberle’s iconic photograph are, in fact, still alive. There are two significant issues here: the importance of stop ..read more

Famed My Lai photographer Ron Haeberle requested that the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, and the Son My Memorial Museum in Quang Ngai Province, correct the caption to one of his iconic photos, taken during the 1968 massacre. Haeberle had discovered and verified the identities of the two children depicted—and learned that they were still alive. He wanted historically accurate captions, and, while the War Remnants Museum complied, the Son My Memorial Museum has refused to do so. Government officials rebuked the War Remnants Museum and made them remove the truthful caption. Haeberle is ..read more