Though the heart and soul of The Walk were the walkers, the organizers were the infrastructure or exoskeleton, to continue the anatomical metaphor. While the actual walking took 9 months, the organizing stretched over 23 months. The Walk national office was tasked with fundraising; planning the San Francisco to Washington route; helping to locate community…
“[We were on] the Walk from San Francisco to Riverside and it changed our lives. We were all students from Friends World College, and were all looking for student projects when we came across an ad for The Walk. . . . All I can say at this point almost 40 years later is WOW!…
The title of this blog serves as a tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono who posted that message on a billboard in Times Square, December 1969. April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee is marking the occasion with a webinar co-sponsored by…
Sixty years ago, the United States had 16,000 military personnel in Vietnam propping up the increasingly brutal South Vietnamese regime headed by Ngô Đình Diệm. Within six years the number of U.S. troops would escalate to over a half million, resulting in almost 60,000 U.S. combat deaths and more than a million Vietnamese, Cambodian, and…
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