The POW-MIA Metaphor

My writing group, The Pen and the Sword, considers topics related to any war, but ...
I used to think, because this is how I was trained—in high school, in college, ...
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The last three times I have traveled it was to Vietnam. I prepared in all the usual ways—passport, suitcase organization, contingency plans—and I used Rosetta Stone and/or Duolingo to study the language. I had no illusions that I would be able to speak Vietnamese, I just wanted to have a clue, a bit of something to hold onto. ...
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Two high school classmates take very different paths to negotiate the war that marked their coming of age. Decades later they reconnect, learn to listen to one another’s story. They travel in space and time to the Vietnam of their memories and seek to reconcile both with the reality of today.

SEEKING QUAN AM
A DUAL MEMOIR OF WAR AND VIETNAM

 

by Susan R. Dixon and Mark M. Smith