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Links

Letters From the Heart
www.pbs.org/pov/regret
If you could write a letter to anyone, living or dead, about the war in Vietnam, who would it be? What would you say? Expanding on ideas from Regret To Inform, Letters From the Heart is a growing, organic memorial to those on all sides who lost their lives in Vietnam -a tapestry created by those left behind and others who support peaceful alternatives to war. The concept is simple: healing wounds through letter writing. Sharing stories to deepen understanding. Reaching out to forge new connections.

Country Joe McDonald's web site
www.countryjoe.com
Famous during the Vietnam War for his anti-war protest song, "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag," you can listen to some of his songs in RealAudio. There is also a substantial list of Vietnam veteran-related links.

P.O.V., NAATA, and TRI, the three links below, are partners in presenting the documentary Regret to Inform.

P.O.V.
www.pbs.org/pov

National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
www.naatanet.org

Television Race Initiative (TRI)
www.pbs.org/pov/tvraceinitiative

Yusef Komunyakaa
metalab.unc.edu/ipa/komunyakaa
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa is a former Vietnam veteran and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. You can hear him read his poetry on this web site.

Swords to Plowshares
www.swords-to-plowshares.org
Swords to Plowshares is a community-based, non-profit organization dedicated to restoring dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency to veterans in need. Swords to Plowshares provides critical services to over 2,000 veterans each year and educates the public about national and local policies relating to veterans.

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Recommended Reading

Art & Photography

Aspects of Resistance by Rupert Garcia

Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina by Horst Faas and Tim Page

Children's Books

The Cello of Mr. O by Jane Cutler

My Wartime Summers by Jane Cutler

Memoirs

American Daughter Gone to War: On the Frontline with an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Winnie Smith

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace by Ly Le Hayslip

Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family by Nguyen Duc

Non-Fiction

Dispatches by Michael Herr

The Vietnam War: Opposing Viewpoints edited by William Dudley

Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow

Poetry, Fiction, Anthologies

Against Forgetting: 20^th Century Poetry of Witness edited by Carolyn Forche

The Book of Perceptions: Poetry by Truong Tran, Photography by Chung Hoang Chuong

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone

Gods Go Begging by Alfredo Vea

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Other Side of Heaven: Post-war Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers, edited by Wayne Karlin, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu

Placing the Accents by Truong Tran

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by B'ao Ninh

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War edited by Lynda Van Devanter and Joan A. Furey

Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose edited by Barbara Tran

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Recommended Viewing

Apocalypse Now - Director Francis Ford Coppola, 1979

Born on the Fourth of July - Director Oliver Stone, 1989

China Beach - Television series that debuted in 1988

Coming Home - Director Hal Ashby, 1978

Cyclo - Tran Anh Hung, 1995

The Deer Hunter - Director Michael Cimino, 1978

Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick, 1987

Hearts and Minds - Director Peter Davis, 1974

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - Directors Fax Bahr & Eleanor Coppola, 1991

Indochine - Director Regis Wargnier, 1992

Jacknife - Director David Hugh Jones, 1989

Little Dieter Needs to Fly: Escape from Laos - Werner Herzog, 1997

Pete Peterson: Assignment Hanoi - Producer / Director / Editor Sandy Northrop, 1999

Platoon - Director Oliver Stone, 1986

Return with Honor Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision - Directors Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, 1998

The Scent of Green Papaya - Director Tran Anh Hung, 1993

The Thin Red Line - Director Terence Malick, 1998

Three Seasons - Director Tony Bui, 1999

Who'll Stop the Rain - Director Karel Reisz, 1978

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