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kiva

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2. I've been reading the book online
Fri Nov 30, 2012, 10:36 AM
Nov 2012

through the college library, I'll look for that letter.

I've been using the video for years - I use a handful of documentaries for teaching the second half of US history, and Dear America is the most powerful. I don't know if you've seen it - I make sure to warn classes that the gunfire and helicopter sounds aren't a good mix for anyone with PTSD; I have had a Vietnamese student who wasn't able to watch the film. If you have seen it, I'd like to hear any comments you have about it.

Thank you for your comment and for your commitment to service. If don't mind talking about it, I'm curious about why you and your brother were both in Vietnam; one of our neighbors reupped twice so that his brother didn't have to go, so I thought it was standard that only one brother served at a time in country.

And thanks for your note at the end...it's always the faces that are so haunting in the video.

Dear America [View all] kiva Nov 2012 OP
I still have the book pinboy3niner Nov 2012 #1
I've been reading the book online kiva Nov 2012 #2
It's been many years since I last saw the film pinboy3niner Nov 2012 #3
Ah, I thought it may have been kiva Nov 2012 #4
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