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Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

This purge is reminiscent of the National Socialist endeavor to identify and eliminate "Entartete Kunst" & the Soviet demand of its artists and writers to conform to the ideals of "socialist realism".

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Thank you for your service, Ms. Hayden. Librarian of Congress, 09/14/2016 - 05/08/2025

Post by @oxboykev · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Black April Today - The collapse of everything familiar was a constant refrain in the country of my birth (the Republic of Vietnam) 50 years ago. Year upon year of bombardments; ye…

Black April Today

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Got War?

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Empiricism You may have stuck your dick into her Pumped some lead into them Declared yourself satisfied The world is nothing without you, you bellow But, you’re not the father of this country Anymore than I’m…

Empiricism

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Post by @myproudsacrifice · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · A lot of people misunderstand the war, misunderstand me. A lot of people think I’m a son of a bitch. - Robert S. McNamara in “The Fog of War”

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Post by @myproudsacrifice · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · What I’m doing is thinking through with hindsight, but you don’t have hindsight available at the time. I’m very proud of my accomplishments, and I’m very sorry that in the process…

As April 30th soon approaches, I have only this to say [Part Five]: www.tumblr.com/myproudsacri...

Post by @myproudsacrifice · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · …never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. And quite frankly, I follow that rule. It’s a very good rule. - Robert S.…

As April 30th soon approaches, I have only this to say [Part Four]: www.tumblr.com/myproudsacri...

Post by @myproudsacrifice · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · This is not primarily a military problem. It is a battle for the hearts and the minds of the people of South Vietnam. That’s our objective. As a prerequisite to that, we must be ab…

As April 30th soon approaches, I have only this to say [Part Three]: www.tumblr.com/myproudsacri...

Post by @myproudsacrifice · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · I took more philosophy classes — particularly one in logic and one in ethics. Stress on values and something beyond one’s self, and a responsibility to society. - Robert S. McNamar…

As April 30th soon approaches, I have only this to say [Part Two]: www.tumblr.com/myproudsacri...

Post by @myproudsacrifice · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Any military commander who is honest with himself, or with those he’s speaking to, will admit that he has made mistakes in the application of military power. He’s killed people unn…

As April 30th soon approaches, I have only this to say [Part One]: www.tumblr.com/myproudsacri...

Orcas Island, WA, January 2014

Shared from my Flickr portfolio. Taken with my Canon EOS REBEL T4i on 01/21/2014:

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Seattle, WA, May 2014

Shared from my Flickr portfolio. Taken with my Canon EOS REBEL T4i on 05/11/2014:

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San Francisco, CA, September 2015 (145)

Shared from my Flickr portfolio. Taken with my Canon EOS REBEL T4i on 09/25/2015:

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Seattle, WA, June 2015 (102)

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OPERATION BABY LIFT: An Adoptee's Perspective - TheHumanist.com In April 1975, under the manufactured threat of a mass slaughter of infants and children by advancing North Vietnamese forces, Western relief agencies and orphanages in South Vietnam, and finally the ...

My article on Operation Babylift published by The Humanist in 2009: thehumanist.com/magazine/may...

YouTube video by Walk Minh Old Man Drown

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Ten years ago I arrived in Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam carrying two bodies: my adult body and my infant body. I didn’t come to re-litigate any historical facts that I had read in a textbook. All I wanted to do was to know, so I wouldn't have to guess any longer.

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"There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering." ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Latest blog post on my SimpleSon blog via Tumblr

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habromania (n.) delusions of happiness

Belshazzar (n.) In the Old Testament, the son of Nebuchadnezzar II and the last king of Babylon, who was warned of his downfall and death by the handwriting on the wall

apricity (n.) warmth of the sun in winter

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Two poems of mine have just been published by the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement. Follow the link below to read them:

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weltenwellen Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Outbound”

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It is in this body I occupy that I became my mother and my father's reflection, their memories, their own flesh and blood. They live in me as I live in them. My parents’ remains remain in me. I am a character in a tale, generations-old, that has been written down somewhere but shall never be told.