So here’s a confession. What I thought I knew about Việt Nam mostly fell by the wayside. What I’m saying is, the trip was humbling. Two weeks in the country and now another several weeks since I came back, I’m still recognizing new ways to see it, and how I can’t see it anymore the…
Posts Categorized: Letters to My Daughter
I Wrote a Story on a Riverboat in Hạ Long Bay
Hạ Long Bay becomes a looming character to me in my story of Việt Nam. I have never been to Hạ Long Bay until this day in March on this second journey. I saw a landscape extraordinary to me. There were karst towers and inside them were caves. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage site of…
Global Village Helps Children and Grandchildren of the American war in Viêt Nam
A most memorable part of the Heaven and Earth Pilgrimage has been the opportunity to see the humanitarian work of the Global Village Foundation founded by Le Ly in 2020.
A Soldier and a Child
This story I want to tell is a U.S. soldier-story, too. I’m traveling with a small group on this trip. Three of the men are veterans of the U.S. war here. Two of them, Chuck Forsman and Mike Stempe, were in the Information Office at Headquarters, 1st Logistical Command
Letters to My Daughter: A Song
I hear a lot of stories in Viet Nam. Some are in song.