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Issue #9 with pictures (2.1 Mb)PDF Format

Issue #9 with no pictures (630 k)PDF Format

•Going Back
• Progress Report for Loan Funds
• Special Profile: Healing the Spirit≠Mrs. Pham Thi Huong
• Other Funding for the Womenís Union
• Vo Thi Lien: A spirit watches over the My Lai Peace Park
• She Shimmered in Time
• The War Cradle
• New Resources for Adult Adoptees from Vietnam
• A Path to Peace
• Motherís Day Proclamation
• Quiet Courage
• Letters
• Beer report
• Motherís Day Proclamation


Issue #8 with pictures (1.9 Mb)PDF Format

Issue #8 with no pictures (92 k)PDF Format

• Going Back.
• Kids & Peace.
• Letters.
• Captured by the Viet Cong–A Lesson from the War
• The Physical Rehabilitation Center of Quang Ngai City.
• Even the Women Must Fight - Memories of War from North Vietnam.
• A Piece of My Heart.
• Quang Tri – For Serious Tourists.
• My Lai Greeting Cards.
• Two Fundraisers, Two Successes.


Issue #7 with pictures (1.5 Mb)PDF Format

Issue #7 with no pictures (182 k)PDF Format

• Going Back-My Lai Peace Park dedication ceremony, friendship bracelets.
• International Non Violent Peace Force.
• Letters.
• U.S. Army School of the Americas.
• Poem-‘The Invasion of Grenada’ by W.D. Ehrhart.
• Sisters Meeting Sisters-El Salvador.
• Earthquake-El Salvador.
• Sisters Meeting Sisters-Guatemala.
• My Lai Greeting Cards.


Issue #6 with pictures (4.7 Mb)PDF Format

Issue #6 with no pictures (182 k)PDF Format

• Going Back-My Lai Peace Park dedication ceremony, friendship bracelets.
• International Non Violent Peace Force.
• Letters.
• U.S. Army School of the Americas.
• Poem-‘The Invasion of Grenada’ by W.D. Ehrhart.
• Sisters Meeting Sisters-El Salvador.
• Earthquake-El Salvador.
• Sisters Meeting Sisters-Guatemala.
• My Lai Greeting Cards.


Issue #5 with pictures (1.9 Mb)PDF Format

Issue #5 with no pictures (110 k)PDF Format

• Going Back. Media in Viet Nam.
• Hugh Thompson Update.
• The Boy From The Ditch.
• Poem-‘A Song of My Native Village’ by Nguyen Quang Thieu.
• Letters.
• Another New School for My Lai.
• Sisters Meeting Sisters.
• An Overview of the Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR), Province of
  Chalatenango, El Salvador Women’s Secretariat.
• Letter from the Women’s Secretariat Organization in El Salvador to the women of Viet Nam and the U.S.
• Children Helping Children-Molly Minden.
• Children Helping Children-Blackhawk Girl Scout Council Cadets 50.
• Children Helping Children-Crestwood Elementary School’s 4th and 5th grade students.
• Art Exchange Greeting Card Project by Christina Morrison.
• An Invitation to Celebrate Life! My Lai Peace Park Dedication Ceremony-March 16, 2001.


Issue #4 with pictures (1.3 Mb)PDF Format

•Going Back. The divisiveness of the war.
• Letters-From the women of Quang Ngai province to the women of El Salvador, other letters.
• Poem-‘USA Cardboard’ by Paul Nichols.
• Val Kuehl’s Project and Visit to Viet Nam.
• Well Project at Song Mai Clinic, Bac Giang Province.
• Projects in Viet Nam sponsored by the Madison Quakers, Inc.. Map of Viet Nam with site locations of projects.
• Loan Fund Profiles-Mrs. Doan Thi Lien.
• An Invitation to Celebrate Life! My Lai Peace Park
• Dedication Ceremony-March 16, 2001.


Issue #3 with pictures (1.4 Mb)PDF Format

• Going Back-Ceremonies at My Lai for My Lai Peace Park, My Lai Primary School, more on Sisters Meeting Sisters.
• Letters
• Poem-‘The My Lai Peace Park’ by Constance Lee Menefee.
• Review-Documentary Film-‘The Long-Haired Warriors’ by Mel Halbach.
• Viet Nam’s Ethnic Minorities (contains map with listing of 53 ethnic tribes)
• The Hre Ethnic Minority.
• Here Community Development Project.
• Loan Fund Profiles-Mrs. Nguyen Thi Bay, Mrs. Dang Thi May and Mrs. Huynh Thi Luu.
• Agent Orange Study in Thua Thien Hue Province by L. Wayne Dwernychuk, Ph.D., R.P.Bio.
• A New Primary School for My Lai.
• Book Review-‘Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War’ by Mary Hershberger.


Issue #2 with pictures (1.2 Mb)PDF Format

• Going Back-Floods in Viet Nam, the Sisters Meeting Sisters project, the Sound of the Violin wins another award.
• Letters: Norman Morrison, Deed of Life, Deed of Death by Anne Morrison Welsh.
• Poem-‘Emily, My Child’ by To Huu.
• A Healing Journey by Anne Morrison Welsh.
• Poem-‘Peace Pagoda’ by Christina Morrison.
• Poem-‘When a Little Child’ by Bui Van Nghi.
• A Peace Park for My Lai.
• The My Lai Peace Park: A Vision Comes to Life.
• Thoughts on War by Deng Ming-Dao.
• Loan Fund Profiles by William Wormsley-Mrs. Bui Thi Kim Phung, Mrs. Dan Thi Bao, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Minh Thanh.
• Book Review-W.D. Ehrhart’s Beautiful Wreckage: New and Selected Poems.
• Poem-‘Beautiful Wreckage’ by W.D. Ehrhart.

Issue #1 with pictures (1.4 Mb) PDF Format

• Going Back-First time back to Viet Nam since the war, The Sound of the Violin in My Lai.
• Poem-‘For Mrs. Na’ by W.D. Ehrhart
• Letters-Veterans and peace activists write, congratulations from Ambassador Le Van Bang.
• The Vietnamese-American Peace Park.
• The Sound of the Violin in My Lai-Reactions by people of Viet Nam.
• The My Lai Loan Fund: A Story of Success.
• Loan Fund Profiles-Mrs. Tran Thi Mao and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Lan.
• Child to Child Exchange.
• Poem-‘The Weather Clears’ by Ho Chi Minh
• Water Puppets by David Giffey.
Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation.
• Book Review-Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong.
• Poem-‘Picking Flowers’ by Ho Xuan Huong.
• Book Review-The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story.