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Advisors:
David Cline
Managers:daoudc@aol.com Dave served in Vietnam in 1967 as a rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division. He was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, CIB, along with other medals and is disabled from the wounds he received. Currently he is serving his third year as president of Veterans For Peace and is a long time member and a national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He is a former officer of Transport Workers Union Local 1400, founding member of the Bring Them Home Now campaign and president of the Jersey City Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee, which dedicated a memorial in 2001 for the 64 local men who died in the war. donaldfox@aol.com Don has been in the film exhibition business for more than 25 years. He is the President of Fox Theaters, an independent theater company based in New York City, with theaters in Florida, Maryland and Pennsylvania. John Grant grantphoto4@earthlink.net John is president of the Philadelphia chapter of Veterans for Peace. He served in Vietnam as a tactical radio direction finder locating NVA radios in the mountains west of Pleiku. He is a writer and photographer and has traveled to Central America, Vietnam and, most recently, to Iraq for his work. He has produced an 80-minute documentary called Second Time Around about a wounded vet who returns to Vietnam 35 years later to live and work. Seth Pollack sethrpollack@yahoo.com Seth Pollack serves on the board of Veterans for Common Sense. VCS is a nationwide organization of moderate veterans who seek a United States that is engaged in a positive manner with the world community and uses military force only as a last resort. Pollack served in the US Army for eight years including combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona where he works as a business consultant. Wayne Smith wayne@vi.org Wayne is currently serving as Special Assistant to the President of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Before joining VVAF he served as Executive Director and later, President of The Justice Project in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he served as President and CEO of the Black Patriots Memorial Foundation. Wayne was a combat medic with the US Army Medical Corps in Vietnam and was among the first group of trained therapists to work with Vietnam Veterans and their families. He has also worked as a counselor/therapist for the Veterans Administration as part of the VA's Vietnam Veteran Readjustment Counseling Program (Vet Centers). Since his experience in Vietnam, Wayne has been addressing issues regarding the causes and consequences of war, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the legacy of the Vietnam War both in the US and in Southeast Asia. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs including ABC Nightline, NBC News, CBS News and National Public Radio. He was among those featured in the 1999 Emmy Award winning documentary, "Vietnam: A Long Time Coming". John J. Stanton, Jr. (in memoriam) Served for eighteen months as Battalion Surgeon, 2nd Btn/ 12th Marines. Was with the Marines during the invasions of Guam and Iwo Jima. Served as an ENT specialist at the US Naval Hospital, Norfolk, VA 1945-47. Retired from private practice in Philadelphia, PA in 2000. William Vitale wvitale@comcast.net Bill is the owner of Designworks, an architectural design firm in Reading, Pennsylvania. He has been actively involved with issues of war and peace since the 1960s. He was a conscientious objector during the war in Vietnam and performed alternative service at a state mental hospital in Pennsylvania. During the 1980s he was on the national staff of Mobilization for Survival, a coalition of organizations working for peace and social justice. Mike Stine (in memoriam)
Mike was a Lutheran Chaplain/ Educator training Army, Air Force, and Navy Chaplains. He worked as a chaplain educator under contract in the Department of Ministry and Pastoral Care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D. C. where the majority of wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated upon their return to the U.S. He served as a Navy chaplain in Vietnam with the Seabees and Marines in 1967/68. Bernard L. Gladieux, Jr. blgjr@pressurepositive.com Bernard “Bun” Gladieux was a line officer in the US Navy serving on Atlantic Fleet Destroyers and at the US Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. He later served in The Executive Office of The President, Office of Management and Budget under three Presidents. He currently owns and manages a family manufacturing and marketing business he founded in 1981. Will Stanton mainpoint@dejazzd.com Will is a filmmaker specializing in social issues documentaries. He is also a veteran (USMC). A recent release, “Givin’ It Up”, explores child sexual abuse from the point of view of adolescent offenders who were victimized themselves. Another project, “Life As You Know It”, about myth, music, substance addiction and self-discovery, is in pre-production. |