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Meet vets who worked hard on 'um-self! Try to look a bit more deeply. There are some vets of any war, not a VFW gathering, who assimilate some lessons from 'The Five Wonderful Precepts'....
Somewhere, I've a book with Tai, Thick Nhat Hanh....
He has written in print, that Vietnam vets have 'touched'
the nations collective 'war-flame' and experienced evil.
And they Survived it.
So, he says, "Speak."
Thick Nhat Hanh has a book cover that shows Tai touching the Veteran Black Granite Reflecting Veterans Memorial. If You go to look for a loved one's name, and see your own facial image reflected back toward you. Ponder.
Visit the Wall?
Tai has written,
`Vietnam Veterans are at the tip of a bees wax candle.
`I have said to Nhat Hanh, "Go out for a football pass?"
`Tai, instead of walking so slow, how about I tackle you?
`If you hand Tai some pints of blueberries and comb honey?
`He calls you sweet.
`Thich Nhat Hanh has writers workshops for peace veterans.
`Maxine Hong Kingston wrote 'The Fifth Book of Peace' ....
In the book, I commented about the phrase, 'It don't mean Nothing'
