THE VIETNAM CONFLICT

http://www.regrettoinform.org/education/guide.pdf    This film, "Regret to Inform," and teacher's guide were produced by Barbara Sonneborn, whose husband was killed in Feb. 1968 during the Vietnam Conflict.  The goal of the film and guide is to look at war through a woman's perspective and to "give young people a different way to begin thinking about war in general and the Vietnam War in particular." 

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"When Clint Haines last scoured the highlands of central Vietnam, he was part of a US Army. " To see this recommendation, click on the link below or cut and paste it into a Web browser:

The Dust Of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government, they endured life in impoverished Vietnam. Their stories are sad, sometimes tragic, but they are also testimonials to human resiliency.

Robert McKelvey is a former marine who served in Vietnam in the late 1960s. Now a child psychiatrist, he returned to Vietnam in 1990 to begin the long series of interviews that resulted in this book. While allowing his subjects to speak for themselves, McKelvey has organized their narratives around themes common to their lives: early maternal loss, the experience of prejudice and discrimination, coping with adversity, dealing with shattered hopes for the future, and, for some, adapting to the alien environment of the United States.

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Unwanted: A Memoir by Kien Nguyen

ISBN: 0316284610   Format: Paperback, 368pp.   Pub. Date: April 2002 Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Edition Description: 1ST BACK B Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 17,706

Kien Nguyen grew up an outsider in his native land. His once prosperous family, thrust into poverty at the dawn of a new political regime, lived among neighbors who treated them as an unwelcome remnant of the colonialist past. Kien himself, a child of mixed race (his father was American), was among the most unwanted.Told with a stark, poetic brilliance, Kien's account of his early years-from the fall of Saigon, when at age eight he watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him and his family, to his eventual escape-is a work of profound emotional resonance, at once harrowing and inspiring. The Unwanted unforgettably records a universal human experience played out in extreme circumstances: the forging of an identity, a life.

Author Biography: Kien Nguyen was born in Nhatrang, South Vietnam, in 1967 to a Vietnamese mother and an American father. He left Vietnam in 1985 through the United Nations' Orderly Departure Program. After spending time in a refugee camp in the Philippines, Nguyen arrived in the United States. He is now a dentist in New York City.