Paul Haeder, Author

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Ho and Vietnam were brothers and sisters to the Palestinians! Johnny Boy (JT) and Black Kettle by Paul Haeder / July 31st, 2020 JT loves drawing sandhill cranes. Extruded from memory, JT sits on the sagging bumper of the Ford RV as he pushes capillaries of charcoal into the sky he delivers on the sketch …

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Serendipity, picking Viet Thanh Nyugen’s memoir, A Man with Two Faces as the main book for the memoir writing class I am teaching. Last time it was Liar’s Club and Wild and other things to haunt the student with other writers’ haunting memoirs. Mary Karr and Cheryl Strayed, and the students learned about all sorts of ins …

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…ICJ is just yet another document, kubuki theater, strange antics in 2024 . . . sure to be repeated over and over and over in the Lunar Year of the Dragon! Oh, that little bit of starvation with a rainbow of herbicides: VIETNAM! President Johnson had ruled out combat forces in Laos, the US military …

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