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From the desk of: Susan Hammond, Founder and Executive Director of War Legacies Project , Co-Chair of the War Legacies Working Group Whenever I return to SE Asia, as I will in a few days, I always remember my first trip to the region in the spring of 1991. I was first drawn to Vietnam because I wanted to get a better understanding of what was so important about this far away country that it took my father away from me for his two tours when I was a child. My father rarely ta

From the desk of Cathleen Balid, PICS Intern with Legacies of War 2025 Don and Cathleen at Library of Congress Today, and the rest of these three days, have left me wrestling a lot with the American political system and my smallness. And what I mean by that is that advocating in this political system, in front of staffers, and oftentimes urgently showing up to representatives that may not even see you, makes you feel so insignificant . In the sense that you have this weight

From the desk of Jessica Pearce Rotondi Chair, Legacies Library and author of What We Inherit : A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers Walking into the Geography and Maps Reading Room in the Library of Congress is like walking into the multiverse; you can follow city streets as they existed hundreds of years in the past, long before pavement and power lines swooped overhead; globes from an era when most of the planet thought the Earth was flat; or slide open a dr

Subject: U.S. 90 Day Freeze on Foreign Aid To: Hon. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State cc: The White House From: U.S. Veterans Dear Honorable Secretary Rubio: We, as veterans who have witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of war, write to urge the immediate reversal of the 90 Day Stop Work order for U.S. foreign assistance programming, specifically the suspension of U.S. funded demining programs. This decision jeopardizes vital, life-saving demining operations and undermi

OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY OF STATE, MARCO RUBIO From: Global Youth Mine Action Fellows Dear Honorable Secretary Rubio: As Mine Action...

By Khamsone Sirimanivong , Vice Chair, Legacies of War I felt deeply honored to attend the Defense POW/MIA (Prisoners of War/Missing in Action) Accounting Agency (DPAA) 2024 Vietnam War Annual Government Briefing this year in Washington, D.C. When I met the families of missing soldiers on the first day, I knew in my heart that this was where I needed to be. I sat down at the center table next to four different families, each representing a different missing American servicema

Anti-Cluster Munitions Campaigners Call on Biden White House to Answer Basic Questions Regarding Recent U.S. Transfers of Indiscriminate...

For Immediate Release: July, 19th, 2023 Download PDF Below Mr. President, It is with a sense of dismay and disappointment that the...

Download PDF Below PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C. July 12, 2023 Mr. President, We the undersigned learned with deep dismay and...