Coming back from
the despair after the bombing has given us a greater sensitivity to one
anotherís communities and weíre thinking of how to find the way forward.
We're still searching, but now we're searching together.
I think converting my
anger to a constructive determination was largely a factor of remembering my
friends in Vietnam of my commitment to them at every level to reconstruct the
relationship between our two countries and our two peoples.
I think by me doing my
part for my children is changing the anger. I am not adding on to the
other peopleís anger. No one can take me out of being a victim unless I
take myself out of being a victim. And no one will ever take me out of
hatred unless I take myself out of it. I'm the King of my own feelings.
I won't allow fear to
be challenged into anger or violence.
Reverend Ian Mairs, Co-founder of the
Interfaith Churches Forum, Omagh, Northern Ireland
Chuck Searcy, 1967
519th Intelligence Battalion US Army in Saigon, 2001 Representative for Asian
Land Mine Solutions in Vietnam
Gertrude Sgentu, Cape Town .
Tamara Rubanawitz, Jaffa, Israel