VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
The University of Kansas Student Auxiliary
V.V.A.R.: Leading the student revolt on campus against speech codes, political correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, dormitory re-education, lying about Vietnam, and other instruments of academic oppression.
Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
Former professor of psychology - Suffolk College, N.Y.
Director of Counseling and Research – University of N.D.
Member: National Association of Scholars
CONTACT: Magruder44@aol.com - Phone: 785-312-9303
(Vietnam vet contact: General Carl Schneider (ret.) Korea, Vietnam
dukesch@aol.com, 480-595-7668)
WE DON'T WANT YOUR VIEWS ON WAR - YOU LIED ABOUT VIETNAM. (Link to article, below, for Eagles to copy and hand out to the other side on September 15, 2007)
“LEFTISTS LIED ABOUT THE WAR 35 YEARS AGO AND ARE LYING ABOUT IT TODAY”- COL. GEORGE E. DAY, PRESIDENT, VIETNAM VETERANS LEGACY FOUNDATION
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MAGRUDER IN SYMPATHY PROTEST AT UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ON SEPTEMBER 15 WITH EAGLES PROTEST IN WASHINGTON
New histories and films continue to appear bringing out the truth about the Vietnam War, such as Moyar's Triumph Forsaken, and the film series, The Long Way Home Project. Still, through all this time both media and academics have continued to hide from confrontation or debate, arguing that, “The fundamental issues of the Vietnam War are not open to debate.” (Moyar)
But in December of 2002, Mr. Leonard Magruder received this letter from Joel Charles Kernodle, President of the 1st Marine Division Association of Indiana:
Dear Mr. Magruder:
I have not only read all of the materials you were so kind to forward, I have posted them within a special forum created for a club to which USMC combat veterans belong. There has been a furor over a post originally made of your actions leading Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform just a few days ago within the club website. Nearly all of the members believe in doing something about these radical protesters and the rebirth of this type of movement. The membership is aware there will be a march/rally/protest in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18. It is the desire of most of the membership to engage these leftists.
Respectfully - Joel Charles Kernodle
Jan. 2002
And they did.
A Call to Arms goes out - 12/29/2002
United States Marine Corps combat veterans of the Vietnam War have initiated an offensive; a war, if you will, against the stance and arrogance of the leftist radical movement. These, sympathetic to the enemies of this nation have again, after thirty years, raised their ugly heads, Phoenix-like, to aid and abet our enemies. As before, they are demonstrating, trying to present, with the help of the liberal media, a false impression to the citizens and politicians of America, and the world, of a popular opposition to the United States defending itself and waging war upon those bent upon its destruction…join up with these Marines and proceed to Washington, D.C. to be a needed member of our demonstration against that of the leftist anti-war protestors.
Semper Fidelis - Joel Charles Kernodle and Vietnam combat veterans of M.O.V.E.-O.U.T.
An article from Mr. Magruder apparently triggered the first face-to-face confrontation with war protestors in Washington in 2002.
And it looks like there is plenty to debate.
And V.V.A.R. was there in spirit in the next one last March 17th. Articles by us were handed out, radio station WVAV in Washington interviewed Mr. Magruder, and CNSNews sent out a national press release on the action.
And September 15 is going to be even bigger. We are asking all those who have worked with us in the past, like Winter Soldier, Free Republic, 25th Aviation and numerous other Vietnam vet organizations, to post, copy, hand out, or send out the article below the dotted line (below) for people attending the event to place directly into the hands of the anti-war protestors. Also, those at the event, walk over to the National Press Building on 14th street and give one to every reporter.
It is a compilation of exact quotes from the literature that the anti-war movement of the 60’s handed out, telling in their own words how they sent blood and other supplies to the Viet Cong, lied to students as to who the enemy was, received congratulations from Ho Chi Minh, and lied about our soldiers and their successes. A major issue is the false interpretation of war in both cases, Vietnam and today, through the use of terms such as “criminal,” “aggression,” and “imperialism,” reflecting the leftist takeover of our campuses and the possibility of their creating a national paralysis in the face of another attack on America. Why should anyone believe them today?
As Col. George E. Day, president of Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, an organization founded to fight the lies, recently said:
“A false history of Vietnam has been used to endanger and demoralize our troops in combat, undermine the public confidence in U.S. foreign policy and weaken our national security. Leftists lied about the war 35 years ago and are lying about it today. Our goal is to counter more that three decades of misinformation and propaganda and set the record straight.”
There is very definitely something to debate.
Even as this article is being handed out on the 15th in Washington, Mr. Magruder will be handing out the same article in a sympathy protest to students at the University of Kansas. Anyone else getting this could do the same thing in their own town or school. Maybe this could become a national day of protest against how our universities and media keep lying about our national sacrifices to help others.
Eaglesup.us, a major organizer of the September 15 event, already has it posted on their website for copying, with this introduction:
“We here at Eagles Up! are happy to announce our association with Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform. They, particularly Mr. Magruder, have worked tirelessly to correct the history being taught about the Vietnam War.”
Our thanks to them, and all others who join us in this effort.
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WE DON’T WANT YOUR VIEWS ON WAR - YOU LIED ABOUT VIETNAM
by Leonard Magruder
We have in our archives a rare book, although some libraries have it, containing 118 of the most important pieces of literature handed out by the antiwar movement between the years 1964 and 1974. Mutiny Does Not Happen Lightly: the Literature of the American Resistance to the Vietnam War. Edited by G. Louis Heath, a professor of sociology at Illinois State University, it was published in 1976 in a limited edition, “selected so as to present an accurate cross-section of the American resistance to the Vietnam War during 1964-1974.”
Containing mostly information on Who, What, Where of the various demonstrations and marches, we, however, are interested in the Why. We carefully went through all 597 pages of this book for all material that focused on the reasons for the anti-war protests. Here are all the statements of that type that we found. The essence of what the anti-war movement told others as to what the war was all about, is found here.
FROM THE LITERATURE OF THE WAR PROTESTS OF THE 60’S (0ur comments added):
“The May 2nd movement is launching an anti-induction campaign on the campuses. ...based on the refusal to fight against the people of Vietnam. Some chapters of May 2 plan to campaign to donate blood and other medical aid to the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) to concretely show our support for national liberation struggles. Receiving blood from U.S. college students will be a terrific morale booster for the Vietnamese people.”
May 2nd Movement- Sept. 8, 1965
(comment: a little aid and comfort from a U.S. branch of the Viet Cong)
“The game of the rich has caught up to Pig America. The Vietnamese have kicked ass out of U.S. occupational troops. More and more G.I.’s will no longer listen to Pig Nixon’s orders and are turning their guns around on the real enemy. The Provisional Revolutionary Government in Vietnam (Viet Cong) has led the Vietnamese people to complete victory.”
Roxboro School SDS- Cleveland Heights - June 4, 1972
(comment: by 1972 the Americans had won all five major offensives at a KIA (killed in action) ratio of 15 to 1, and South Vietnam was 95% pacified. After the Americans fought the enemy to a peace treaty and left, South Vietnam defended itself for two years until bitter anti-war Democrats in Congress betrayed them by cutting off their ammunition. These are the kinds of elementary facts that students never seem to know.)
“Recently many articles have appeared in the movement press expounding the virtues of deserting and going AWOL. ‘Come to Canada and be a man.’ ‘Soldiers are pigs.’ ‘To remain in the imperialist U.S. Army rather than leaving is comparable to being a Nazi.’ Last year there were, by Pentagon counts, 250,000 AWOL’s and over 53,000 deserters. This has not made much of a dent in the fighting strength of the U.S.Army. That dent has clearly come from the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people under the leadership of the NLF and the Provisional Revolutionary Government.”
New York Regional SDS distributed at Boston University - Feb. 22, 1969
(comment: you really had to be gullible to join the anti-war movement)
Letter from Ho Chi Minh to a radical activist in Youth Against War and Fascism, Free University of New York:
“My Dear -------
I have received your letter. You and the progressive American people, especially the youth, feel indignant at the barbarous crimes perpetrated in Vietnam by the U.S. imperialists who have thus besmeared the honor of the American people and the noble traditions of the United States. I am glad to learn that you and many other young Americans are actively endeavoring under varied forms to help push forward the movement against the war of aggression in Vietnam and in support of the Vietnamese people. With affectionate greetings, Signed, Uncle Ho”
June 18, Nov. 25, 1965
(comment: congratulations on your treason from Uncle Ho)
“The U.S. government is planning shortly to order the bombing of Haipong, an industrial city of half a million people, which is Hanoi’s seaport, and of Hanoi itself. The U.S. also plans to bomb the system of dikes in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam which keeps the North Vietnamese from drowning and starving. Just as the U.S. is attempting to drown in blood the liberation struggle of the South Vietnamese people because it is the model for liberation struggles everywhere, so North Vietnam is being bombed to bits because it shows all colonial and former colonial countries, by living example, that Socialism can solve their problems.”
Youth Against War and Fascism, Free University of New York - Aug. 27, 1966
(comment: no one bombed any dikes. Leftist editor Harrison Salisbury started this myth.)
“As far as the Vietnamese are concerned , we are fighting on the side of Hitlerism, and they hope we lose. Most people support the NLF. Why? The war in Vietnam is not being fought according to the rules. Prisoners are tortured. Our planes drop incendiary bombs on civilian villages. Our soldiers shoot at women and children. Your officers will tell you that it is all necessary, that we couldn’t win the war any other way. We believe that the atrocities which are necessary to win this war against the people of Vietnam are inexcusable.”
Vietnam Day Committee, San Francisco - Aug. 2, 1966.
(comment: spreading atrocity lies was a specialty.)
“It is important for us to tell people why the demands of the NFL and the PRG represent the only hope for peace, independence and unity in Vietnam. To anyone who knows the political-military situation in Vietnam, to declare for immediate withdrawal is to support the NLF without saying it. What is important…is to show that Vietnam is only a place where U.S. policies of neocolonialism have met with active resistance.”
Stanford University - November 15, 1969
(comment: hypocrisy was another specialty)
“Just when Westmoreland was boasting that there were only small guerrilla groups left, he was hit in October 1967 with a division-sized unit. While he was explaining that this was a desperate last fling, he was hit by another division- sized unit. The U.S. forces never recovered from this. Westmoreland started panic measures. Forced to disperse, he opened the way for the NLF’s mighty Tet offensive in late January that sealed the fate of the ‘limited war’ because from then on Westmoreland, and General Abrams after him were forced onto the strategic and tactical defensive.”
Radical Student Union - Univ. of California- Berkeley- Dec. 11, 1969
(comment: in the “mighty” Tet Offensive the enemy lost 40,000 dead, half his forces, and the Viet Cong was decimated, never again a credible force. The allies lost 1,231. This is what CBS’s Walter Cronkite called a “stalemate.”)
“I want Spiro Agnew to know that I bring this assembly a message of greetings and solidarity with the American people from the Viet Cong. I want Agnew to know that this generation is establishing its own diplomatic relations, because we are not at war with the people of Vietnam. Our war is with the Pentagon, Wall Street, and Spiro T. Agnew. Nixon plans to win…by withdrawing enough troops to deflate antiwar sentiments at home , while fortifying major cities like Hue and Saigon and from this position of fortification carry out the raging air war against the countryside that most students of Vietnam now understand is controlled by some 80% of the National Liberation Front.”
Speech by Rennie Davis, San Francisco Peace Rally - Nov. 15, 1969
(comment: 80% !! ole’ Rennie in solidarity with Viet Cong lies. Could subversion be more obvious? Student leaders just made up things and everybody, like sheep, believed them.)
“The resistance of the people of South Vietnam is an indigenous movement of politically and religiously diverse groups and individuals which was organized in response to years of oppression and illegal action by the U.S. government and its various ‘puppet’ regimes in Saigon. In order to counter the U.S. government’s propaganda --which falsely teaches the public that the ‘enemy’ is an outside, ‘communist’ aggressor - we will continue to make use of various educational means. The U.S. government is trying to stifle, at tremendous cost and risk, a liberation struggle which is setting the example for all oppressed peoples.”
The U.S. Committee to aid the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) New York City,- May 10, 1966
(comment: apparently professors forgot to tell them there was an “outside enemy,” called the Communist North)
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By the simple device of charging American soldiers with aggression against the “freedom fighters” of the Viet Cong, legions of students, using this excuse to justify their “moral outrage” (and avoid the draft), engineered a movement that spread to the gullible throughout the nation, helping to defeat a noble cause to bring freedom to others. Not a single one of these attacks on the war mentions that America was helping South Vietnam to fight Communist aggression.
As Jamie Glazov, noted historian, once pointed out on FrontPageMag:
“The most putrid lie of the Left - was the assumption that the U.S. was somehow fighting the people of South Vietnam, when it in fact was actually fighting the Communists who were seeking to imprison them.”
And today they are crawling back in bed with those same old toothless hags of the 60’s—“aggression,” “immoral,” “imperialism”—and re-cycling the same old lies.
As late as the thirtieth anniversary of the Vietnam War, Stephen Young could write, “Our national recollection of the war matches that of the New Left.” Because that is what is preserved and taught in our universities. For thirty years, for example, they have continued to use Karnow’s, “Vietnam: A History”, a work so biased that when presented as a PBS series people who had been there rioted in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Houston, and Paris.
The election of 2004 was a massive repudiation by Vietnam vets of the New Left version of the war. The new Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation says they lied. The above article makes it very clear that they lied.
Think of the possibilities. If a significant number of those on the other side see this article, and a significant number of reporters see it, and it shows in the very words of the 60’s protestors how they lied, and the university still says there is nothing to debate, then we have a national scandal over academic corruption, and those who support the troops will win the election. Or maybe Vietnam vet groups should simply march up on campus and demand debate. But one way or the other, the “haughty derision” and “ostracism” (Moyar) of academics on the subject of Vietnam is coming to an end. Let’s all think big and make it happen.
For a classic example of how those who teach the Vietnam War misinform and get away with it, see, Students Challenge Professor on Vietnam at v-v-a-r.org (Tuttle at K.U.) He refused to correct the error.
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