Introduction / Mary Susannah Robbins -- [Part one. Beginnings] -- The need to remember / David Harris -- The impossible victory : Vietnam / Howard Zinn -- [Part two. The war at home] -- From Ha ha ha McNamara / Robert Malecki -- My Vietnam / Jane Bond Moore -- Burning illusions : the napalm campaign / H. Bruce Franklin -- The responsibility of intellectuals / Noam Chomsky -- Declaration of independence from the war in Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Why I joined the resistance / Michael Ferber -- A time to say no / Michael Ferber -- Poems / Daniel Berrigan -- Chicago 1968 : street-fightin' man / Carl Oglesby -- From the suburbs to Saigon / Jeff Jones -- Vietnam comes to Lexington : Memorial Day 1971 / Eugenia Kaledin -- "Where are you now, my son?" / Joan Baez -- [Part three. Soldiers against the war] -- What did you do in the class war, Daddy? / James Fallows -- War memorial : staying close to a buddy twenty-five years after his death / George Swiers -- American war crimes and Vietnam veterans / Tod Ensign -- The war against the war / David Cortright -- [Part four. Consequences] -- Consequences of the Vietnam War and government policies of the seventies / Eugene J. McCarthy -- Passing it on : the movement for teaching the Vietnam War in schools / Jerold M. Starr -- Visiting Vietnam / Arlene Ash -- Chicago 1996 : despite corporate media silence many powerful protests / Dave Dellinger -- [Part five. Conclusions] -- What I got out of the war / Jane Sass Collins -- Cherishing vistas, embracing human beings : toward peace and freedom / William Ayers -- Déjà vu all over again / Staughton Lynd.