I do not want this letter or material to be counter point to video and believe me it is very good. There was a great deal I would add and having only 58 minutes; I hope this will be added to your net as resource information.

The reason I would send any veteran back to Viet Nam, would so they can see a warm, friendly country at peace. To find the hurt is almost by choice. The geopolitical ramifications and the dispute with their form of government can not be removed. But for a returning veteran the peace and goodwill is open and there. Now, do you want to do business in a Communistic country.....you will learn different lesson, than a tourist looking for war. The war is gone. Lady Borton talked about that only once. Any discussion from the six men about how they felt about Viet Nam by taking this trip seems to be lost on the cutting room floor.

Your "Wandering Souls" frankly left me a little sad, as it seemed "dark."

I had no dark feelings....from this trip. I saw and felt happy to see how wonderful the place was at peace. We traveled to battlefields which are tourist points today. You have to put your experiences of the place.....in that finished mode.....to see beauty.....clean and good smelling. I enclose a copy of my trip log as best as I could keep up on the trip. You may put the whole log on the net if you wish. But, I would like you to read it. I will be back in May for the film festival and would love to talk to you. You might look at your tapes: everyone one of us repeatedly talked about the smells. If you haven't been in a war, it may seem like a small thing....it isn't. We also all talked about peace and good feelings. Of course there were misgivings that we couldn't get into Nike plants to see if children were being beaten to work....there were things we would have liked to really see. Again doing business there would be different than America.......but this trip and to any other veteran I would send to see the "end of war." Their war history leaves out any mention of civil war, but remember we still have North/South football games. They call it the Reunification War Against America.

This is not to dispute the effects of war on men......and the film is very powerful.....it's just a part of picture.....there is more.....and healing is as individually as individuals remember their war. It, of course, takes more than a trip back to reach forgiveness......but it can help some.....and I urge any veteran who wants......go and see and feel and smell.