The VVA Veteran is a publication of Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., an organization chartered by the U.S. Congress.
In this issue:
KNOW YOUR ENEMY: Former U.S. GAO Senior Analyst and Coast Guard Veteran Michael Gorin offers a step-by-step guide for veterans to protect themselves from predatory online fraudsters and scammers with a few simple steps designed to ward off phony “exclusive deals,” debt-consolidation schemes, romance scams, and more.
VETERAN FIRST, HIPPIE SECOND: VVA Veteran contributor Doug Bradley’s special “Speak Out!” tribute to the late singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald, who served in the U.S. Navy in the early 1960s and was a veterans advocate throughout his famed rock music career, including a new look at his famed antiwar song, “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Ra
THE NEIGHBORHOODS WE ROAMED: Michael Gorin’s “Speak Out!” is an homage to five men he knew growing up in the 1950s in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York, who served in the Vietnam War, two of whom did not come home—men, he remembers, who “were young, full of promise, and above all, answered the call.”