ANNOUNCEMENT: VIETNAM War Remembered
What and When:
Slaying Dragons: Seeing Vietnam
Three Decades after the Fall of Saigon -
Oct 20-24th
Cinema - Heaven and Earth: Oliver Stone's
last
of the Vietnam trilogy (Platoon, & Born on the Fourth of
July
) tells the story of Le Ly Hayslip in Vietnam as a child, during the
war
as a teen, and her transformation as a mother dealing with America in
her
country an dthen as the wife of a US soldier in America; Oct. 20th,
7
PM Community Building, 35 W. Main. Thin Air Radio Benefit,
Donations
accepted.
Photography - images of Vietnam now; reception Oct.
21st, 7 PM Community Building, 35 W. Main . . . Free and open to
the
public.
Literary reading - Veterans, Dan Webster and Michael
Holmes;
poets Tod Marshall & Connie Wasem; photographer, Paul Haeder: Oct.
21st, 7 PM Community Building, 35 W. Main . . . Free and open to
the
public.
Panel Discussion - Aftershock of Vietnam War on US;
Ron
Large, religous studies, GU; Rusty Nelson, veteran and PJALS; James
Funk,
Veteran and councelor with Veterans Outreach; Oct. 22, 7 PM
Gonzaga's
Foley Library, teleconference room . . . Free and open to the
public.
Documentary - Daughter of Danang: tells the
story
of a woman returning to Vietnam after living in the US two decades.
Discussion
after; Oct. 23, 7 PM Gonzaga's Foley Library, teleconference room
. . . Free and open to the public.
Talk about Post Combat Stress and Vietnam - Linda
Parkes,
Veteran Outreach Director, discusses innues of relocation and refugee
status
for Southeast Asians immigrating to Western countries and maybe a
video: Oct. 24, 3:30 PM Gonzaga's Foley Library, teleconference room
. . . Free and open to the public.
Documentary - Vietnam Passages: tells the
story
of five Vietnamese from the perspective of UPI and LA Times
reporter
who covered Vietnam during the war, during the fall, and then in 2001.
Discussion
after; Oct. 24, 7 PM Gonzaga's Foley Library, teleconference room
. . . Free and open to the public.
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