Tag: life in Vietnam
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What Most Americans Do on 9/11
I wonder how long after December 7, 1941 that Americans stopped remembering what exactly they had been doing after they heard the news. I suppose it was a generation or more. 9/11 has certainly become that date for me. I wasn’t born when JFK was assassinated, so there wasn’t a particular date that always made…
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Vietnam gets ahold and doesn’t let go
I’m currently in my ninth year of living in Malaysia, and I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. But there is something still that pulls on my heart when I think about the nearly ten years I lived in Vietnam. I think part of the pull is that my kids’ formative years were lived…
Author Mark W Sasse 