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Maxine Hong Kingston on Memorial Day

born 1940 United States

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All during the Vietnam War, I could feel there was a darkness hanging over the whole world and it lasted for so long.

Linda wrote in her Ph.D. dissertation: "Vietnam duty provided the most unambiguous source of antiwar sentiment." War causes peace. (p227)

The Fifth Book of Peace (2003)

If we imagine characters, can we cause them to appear in the real world? What if I could strongly write peace, I can cause an end to war.

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