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<div>Here is a song by Betsy Rose written for the Vietnamese Boat People. Listen and weep. Let us give thanks for the gift the ones who made it to our shores have been.</div>
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<div>And let us pray for today's refugees and the alleviation of terrible suffering today in Libya, south Sudan, Nigeria, the Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Myanmar, Venezuela, Mexico.</div>
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<div>My wife, Sandi, and I just sat silently for a long time after the end of the series.</div>
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<div class="aolmail_gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:12 AM, David Dunn via OE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:17px">Burna and I have been glued to "The Vietnam War” for all ten episodes. </div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">Tonight, for lots of reasons, the last hour of the last episode of the documentary broke my heart wide open. I cried a lot.</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">1. <b>Apropos "the upheaval of all that has been"</b>—The Introduction to a little book of poems, <i>Poema dla Russki Druzye</i> (<i>Poems for Russian Friends</i>), 19 August 1992</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">A two-week visit in Moscow at the time of the abortive coup of August 19, 1991 and the reflection that followed during the next few months, is the occasion for an observation. A force is at work in the world with which historians, politicians, and sociologists have not yet reckoned—the powerful attraction between people once separated by ideology and ignorance. Even ten years ago, who could have imagined that on such a global scale the familiar, the prudent, the expected would all be set aside by life demanding to be reunited with life. Tourists, citizen diplomats, and entrepreneurs alike will be captured, broken open, and transformed by a passion for connection that arises in spite of all attempts to hold i back</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">These poems are a way of saying thank you to may people who have become new friends on this journey of transformation.</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">I know that the upheaval of all that has been is first and last an assault on the heart. I hope that you find courage to build what must be built.</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">2. <b>Apropos the Viet Nam War veterans from both countries </b>who were drawn together in Viet Nam to meet, remember, forgive, and serve: a poem from <i>Poems for Russian Friends</i>.</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">You and I have been imprisoned by years of lies,</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">We strain at the bars keeping us apart</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">Charged souls so long apart</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">3. <b>Apropos expanding one’s context</b> through long term international, cross-cultural friendship—Burna’s and my friends, Alexey and Liuba Kuzmin in Moscow</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">Alexey and I met in August 1991 at a Russian-American Family Camp (Virginia Satir model) in Moscow. Our families have spent time together in both Moscow and the US. Alexey and I check in with each other more or less weekly over Skype. He’s teaching about Program Evaluation in Turin, Italy this week.</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">4. <b>Apropos the image of Russia and America</b> as two exhausted prize fighters locked in a sweaty clinch—another poem from <i>Poems for Russian Friends</i></div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">Mirrors</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">We live in a world of mirrors,</div>
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<div style="font-size:17px">Only other eyes</div>
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