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![]() Healing and new view of Vietnam for veterans on reconciliation tours
(EXCERPT) By Melissa Mansfield The Associated Press 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 aimed at helping Vietnam veterans come to terms with the war and its aftermath. New York state residents, psychotherapist Edward Tick and history professor Steven Leibo, have led three such tours with some 70 veterans, historians, teachers and students from across the nation. Veterans pay for the trips. "Part of the philosophy of healing is returning to the scene of the crime in safety," said Tick, who has worked with survivors of severe tra... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 28 Nov 2003, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...amtours30.html --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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