Comments on: A Memory of Howard Zinn

By: Gloria DeGaetano

Gloria DeGaetano — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:04:23 +0000

Dear Mr. Ellsburg,

You and the late Howard Zinn are my heroes. Thank you for the continued inspiration and hope you instill by your choices and your life.

By: robert dresdner

robert dresdner — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:51:56 +0000

Mr. and mrs. Ellsberg, I am reading Secrets- can’t put it down! Thank you for your heroic work and patriotic sacrifices for this country. Let freedom ring!

By: richard g mcconchie

richard g mcconchie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:35:49 +0000

Mr. Ellsberg, I am reading Secrets and I can hardly put it down. I knew some of these things as I was in RVN with the First Infantry Division 65-66,as an infantryman, my only MOS, and with M
ACV 69-70 in the bottom on the delta advising the RF/PF’s. After that tour I was assigned to an Army school to teach NCO’s going or returning to RVN about the war, the NLF etc;etc. I read extensively to prepare myself and found out much of what you had discovered in 69-70 about the history of the French and the US in RVN. I managed to keep my job and my rank in spite of telling my fellow noncoms that it was a “shit deal” and they should go only because they must and to keep their heads down and do everything possible to keep their men and themselves alive. I spent 25 years in the Army and another 15 teaching JROTC after I retired. I told hundreds of high school kids the same about the war in Viet Nam. When Bush the Lessor started his wars I quit my job and retired feeling quite hopeless about this country–Obama has not made me feel better, yet.

I thank you for your part in ending that war and only wish we could stop war altogether. I am a fan of your late pal Howard Zinn also and quoted him often in my JROTC classes.

Sincerely

Rich McConchie
CSM USA, Ret

By: Ruth Crocker

Ruth Crocker — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:09:08 +0000

Thank you for your sensitive and loving portrait of Howard Zinn. He was one of my heros. My husband was killed in Vietnam in 1969 and I appreciated the efforts of you and Howard to end the war.

By: jalama

jalama — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:39:38 +0000

Much gratitude to you, Daniel, and your dear friend Howard, for inspiring me with the power of your courage and conscience.

By: vincent frisina

vincent frisina — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:13:07 +0000

I just heard you on Bob Edward’s Weekend. My ears were glued to the radio as you were telling Mr. Edwards how you managed to obtain the papers that later became public.
Now I learn from your website you were close friends with my hero Howard Zinn. Thank you for that story of getting the papers to Mr Zinn on a Movie outing with your wives.
I also learned our birthday’s fall within a month of each other.
I will see the movie, The most dangerous man in America as soon as I can.
And thank you again for leading a great Patriotic life.
Vincent Frisina

By: Stephen Mello

Stephen Mello — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:01 +0000

United with millions of other people I felt the loss of Howard Zinn.. Back in 1971, when I was a high school student; Professor Zinn and I shared print in my local New Bedford sub-Standard Times when along with many others we were arrested for blocking the federal building in goverment center.. You did a nice job recounting the scene that day.. I especially recall the congeniality of the TAC squad before they attacked and the beating in the elevator going down into the garage below for processing.. A concrete lesson about the State.

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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:49:53 +0000

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By: niels kiens

niels kiens — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:32:02 +0000

i just saw the film on TV .
great job,
keep fighting for peace.

By: Cynthia Caldwell

Cynthia Caldwell — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:00:28 +0000

Thank you, Daniel Ellsberg. Even through our tears, Howard Zinn’s joy will live with us forever. Remember. “Never again.”