Veterans Go on Organized Tours to Vietnam

Veterans Go on Organized Tours to Vietnam

(EXCERPT) MELISSA MANSFIELD Associated Press

TROY, N.Y. - The first time Ivan Van Laningham was in Vietnam, the
mountain of Cu Chi was a combat zone.

Thirty-two years after serving in the Vietnam War, Van Laningham
returned and found a resort area where rubber-tired trains cart
tourists around and rabbit-shaped trash baskets dot paved trails.

"It was incongruous to visit the mountain that had once been the
target of so much firepower and see such cutesy trash containers,"
said the 56-year-old Salt Lake City man.

Van Laningham went back to Vietnam as part of a Learning and
Reconciliation Tour organized by a doctor and professor to help
Vietnam veterans come to terms with the war and its aftermath.

Edward Tick, a psychotherapist in Albany, and Steven Leibo, a history
professor at The Sage Colleges in Troy, have led three such to...

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