Abstract
Nguyen Thi Ngoc is my adopted Vietnamese daughter. We are two people from cultures that had been in terrible warfare who have joinedi together in the community of the invaded to share, rebuild, heal, reconcile, and enter lifelong family relations. Ngoc proves to be an angel of mercy to our returning American veterans. She says, “Please keep bringing your veterans to Viet Nam so I can heal them with my love.”
The poems and photos in this article were written for Ngoc and my travelers about some of the experiences we have shared during the two decades of healing journeys I have led to Viet Nam. War alienates peoples and destroys communities. Efforts and relationships like these restore these critical components of our well- being so that we do indeed thrive, even after war.
Recommended Citation
Tick, Edward Ph.D.
(2024)
"Poems from COMING HOME IN VIET NAM,"
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 9:
Iss.
2, Article 9.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol9/iss2/9