Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved"On November 4th, my brother arrived in Qui Nhon, Viet Nam. It was my eighth birthday. Because my parents could no longer care for me, I was sent to live with various relatives. Gary and I didn’t see one another for years.
Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved"While perusing Gary’s Vietnamese/English dictionary, I found it had hand-written declarations of love to him from a Vietnamese woman with whom he had fallen in love. I have since found information that confirmed their plans to marry."
Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved"My pre-war brother, a normal and well-adjusted person had become, according to the Veterans Administration, 50% disabled. He took his own life ten years later."
Jessica Hines Exhibition "My Brother's War"
August 20 - Sept 17/ Sol Mednick Gallery
at the University of the Arts, Philly
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I voted.
This entry brought tears to my eyes.
we do not often know
the memory we make
which we eventually call history
or love
or despair
beth
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