Vietnam Trip Builds Understanding ; the Daughter of a Veteran Who Served in Vietnam Travels to the Country to Gain a Sense of Her Father.
Portland Press Herald › October 08, 2008
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The colored military identification tags hanging from Shelley Wigglesworth's rearview mirror are constant reminders of her recent trip to Vietnam.
The red one is symbolic of the blood shed and lives lost during the Vietnam War, and the orange one is symbolic of war veterans living with the side effects of Agent Orange exposure.See the full content of this document
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Vietnam Trip Builds Understanding ; the Daughter of a Veteran Who Served in Vietnam Travels to the Country to Gain a Sense of Her Father.
The tags also remind Wigglesworth of the reason for her journey: to better understand her father, John Fleming, a war veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam in the 1960s.
Fleming, 61, was ...See the full content of this document
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