Thursday, March 12, 2015

Support Healing Digital Stories - in Viet Nam this Fall

Sad: The U.S. has never agreed to pay Vietnam reparations or the $3 billion in reconstruction funds President Nixon promised during the Paris peace accords that ended the American involvement in Vietnam in 1973.
Fifty years since the first major American combat unit was deployed to Vietnam, the lethal legacies of war still haunt generations of civilians in that country. Special correspondent Mike Cerre, who served in that conflict, reports from Danang about...
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  • Ron Alexander LIKE: LIKE: SEN. PATRICK LEAHY, (D) Vermont: We spent $100 million to remediate this. We built a state-of-the-art facility. MIKE CERRE: Senator Patrick Leahy is a longtime advocate of funding NGOs helping Vietnam deal with these lethal legacies. He was in Da Nang last year for the inauguration of his three-story oven-like building to cook the dioxin out of the soil, the dangerous compound which has been contaminating the local water and food chain.
     
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    Ron Alexander  Doing well dear Kelly - really into digital storytelling and may go to Viet Nam with Dr. John Fisher in Sept.? http://www.gofundme.com/lb9iaw Click here to support Teaching Healing Digital Stories by Ron Alexander This video making (digital story-telling) has been... gofundme.com .. 16 hrs · Like · 1 · Remove Preview
    This video making (digital story-telling) has been...
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    Ron Alexander Lindsley Field: We would be honored and thrilled to have you join our fall 2015 trip Ron! Lindsey is Dr. Fisher's wife and they go over there and help with healing the victims of agent orange every year!

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