reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and we re fortunate to have tran te wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. we have nguyen fu will be talking about an effort of projetc renew to clear the landmines and unexploded ordnance. and we have van lai who himslef is a victim of exploding unexploded ordnance. i also want to take a moment to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this conference and particularly the panel of wednesday afternoon. that is terry province and john mcauliff from the vietnam peace peace commemoration committee. now it is a great pleasure to introduce chris appy. he is a professor, historian at the university of professor of massachusetts amherst. he is best known for three of his books on vie
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