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		<title>Searching&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where has the time gone?  It was almost a year ago that I received an email from a television show that offered to help search for my supposed Vietnamese foster mother.  The application requires a large amount of personal information.  I start to fill it out, then stop, start filling it out again, then stop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=343&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It ain&#8217;t coca cola, it&#8217;s rice.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight to Hell &#8211; The Clash If you can play on the fiddle How&#8217;s about a British jig and reel? Speaking King&#8217;s English in quotation As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze In the generation Clear as winter ice This is your paradise There ain&#8217;t no need for ya Go straight to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=320&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grim Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Killers at the orphanage gates. They’ve all come with their blades, their grins and their candy. Everyone in town recognizes their arm sleeve insignia, their flags and their loud, easy talk. To cut off the heads of one’s enemies while sparing the heads of their offspring must be a horrific enterprise. Even if one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=302&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeology of the Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple months, as you’ve probably noticed, I posted a series of excerpts from books on the Vietnam War that had an unstated, but clear, purpose (Notes from a Disintegrating Nation and It Was Never About Freedom). I’m more than happy to admit that I can come off as polemic and bit too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=298&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Never About Freedom, Part 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, taught me that sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. In this case, all I had to do was open a book, and some of the truth spilled out. Bolded text is my emphasis.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ pp250-251 In France in the spring and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=222&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Never About Freedom, Part 9</title>
		<link>http://misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/it-was-never-about-freedom-part-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, taught me that sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. In this case, all I had to do was open a book, and some of the truth spilled out. Bolded text is my emphasis.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [Ton That Thien] pp176-177 …on U.S. stakes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=219&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Never About Freedom, Part 8</title>
		<link>http://misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/it-was-never-about-freedom-part-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, taught me that sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. In this case, all I had to do was open a book, and some of the truth spilled out. Bolded text is my emphasis.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [Gen. Ngo Dzu] p169 One night in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=216&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Never About Freedom, Part 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, taught me that sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. In this case, all I had to do was open a book, and some of the truth spilled out. Bolded text is my emphasis.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [Nguyen Cao Ky] pp132-133 In the spring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=211&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Never About Freedom, Part 6</title>
		<link>http://misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/it-was-never-about-freedom-part-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kev Minh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, taught me that sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. In this case, all I had to do was open a book, and some of the truth spilled out. Bolded text is my emphasis.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ p117 Chau was a brave soldier as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=205&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roots of another kind: part I</title>
		<link>http://misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/roots-of-another-kind-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost A friend and I headed out one morning in search of the art district.  I&#8217;d never been to that area of town and had to google up a map.  Anyone who regularly uses google maps eventually learns that trying to navigate those things can tricky.  Sometimes it&#8217;s like trying to find true north using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=misplacedbaggage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3110050&amp;post=257&amp;subd=misplacedbaggage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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