The Chris Hedges Report Show with Vietnam combat veteran Doug Rawlings, one of the founders of Veterans for Peace, on war, atonement, poetry and returning to Vietnam after 53 years.

"I was first introduced to the idea of political poetry on October 18, 1970, about midnight, in an all-night Harvard Square corner bookstore,” Doug Rawlings writes.  “A few months before that encounter I had returned from the war in Viet Nam.  To say that I was confused and angry is an understatement.  I was also somewhat lost.  Then on that fateful nig…