I was invited to attend day 2 of the 4-week long teacher training in Kim Dong Elementary School in Tay Ninh. It was a privilege to be able to observe and learn 16 teachers from the region absorb and ask questions from the small group of American teachers about "teaching as leadership".
Spending July 4th in Vietnam is poignant in its own way.
This being Vietnam, memorials are everywhere. From the life-sized bust of Ho Chi Minh in the meeting room we were in, to pictorial-memorials of fallen heroes -- everyday people whose lives were cut short by the curse of war -- adorning the hallways. It's a somber reminder of how war and conflict makes heroes out of everyone -- sometimes needlessly, often without solicitation.
May we learn from our own independence the burning desire of other peoples to be independent like us. Even people who once had to fight to be independent from us.
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