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Category Archives: Vietnam January 2010
Four Men Severely Injured by Bomb near Khe Sahn, Vietnam
Last month, January 2010, Amanda Koster and the rest of the SalaamGarage team visited Khe Sanh to experience first hand the work of NGO Peacetrees Vietnam. While there, they learned about UXOs (unexploded ordnance) left from the Vietnam War and the dangers they cause to the local farmers and their families still today.
Unfortunately the event [...]
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From Dong Ha to Khe Sanh Vietnam by Daysha
The past few days have been a whirlwind. Before we left Dong Ha, the group traveled to the Truong Son Cemetery, the Vietnamese equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery. I lit incense and placed it before the towering monument at the entrance then proceeded to walk around the beautiful grounds. The scene was stunning and the [...]
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Making peace with Dad's war
By Guest Blogger, Journalist Daysha Eaton
The very first interview that I ever conducted was with my father. It was a high school English assignment to interview a veteran of a war. My dad was a Vietnam Vet so, naturally, I went home on May 20, 1993, sat down in the living room of our house [...]
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Daysha is SuperStringer.com. ThePoint.com for fundraising for Vietnam
On Journalist Daysha Eaton’s website Superstringer.com the tagline is “changing the world one story at a time.” She is after just that. This week Daysha applied for a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting with a pitch to tell the story of how the Vietnamese are still suffering post Vietnam War. [...]
Its a Lonely Planet Video and eating BANH MI with Bourdain
14 days till the September 1 deadline to register for the SalaamGarage trip to Vietnam January 11-23, 2010. We will be in Hanoi and the Quang Tri province in central Vietnam with NGO Peacetrees Vietnam. Quang Tri province is the region that saw the most fighting during the war and is now, slowly, still [...]
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Vietnam Humanitarian Media trip
Only 5 months till SalaamGarage takes on another great cause. On January 11, 2010 SalaamGarage’s Vietnam team and Peacetrees Vietnam NGO will be eating pho and bun in cafe in Hanoi. We’ll be sharing photography experiences with Jennifer Le, a talented Hanoi based social documentary photographer, and other media creators. [...]
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Daysha Eaton and Janat Horn published in Vietnam