Voice Of Vashon

Mike Dorsey, a Vietnam Veteran (infantry and a machine-gunner on a Huey) and Chris Gaynor discuss going back to visit familiar places in Vietnam.  They discuss changes.

An interview with Susan Warner-Bean regarding an organization she is involved with titled, “Peace Tree.” She also takes groups of Vietnam Veterans on return visits to Vietnam.

An interview with Susan Warner-Bean regarding an organization she is involved with titled, “Peace Tree.” Peace Tree builds schools, and supports teams in Vietnam who find and diffuse unexploded mines and bombs in Vietnam.

Poetry read by Steve Nourse and Susan Shrier.  Also, a reading when students were taken to monuments of World War II. All wars have many similarities.        

Paul O’connell wrote a letter to his family almost every day that he was a grunt in Vietnam.  I wrote eighty letters to my family as an eighteen year-old Marine serving in Vietnam during the war. I was reunited with these letters sixteen years later. When I sat and read them, I was blown away […]