Traveling with LSN afforded us the opportunity to meet with scholars and experts like professor Truong Quong Hoc on daily basis. On Tuesday, March 23 LSN arranged for our group to meet over breakfast with representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. These representatives emphasized to us that long after the war ended the landmines remained a threat to life and limb most often effecting innocent: small children playing, farmers in the field, and mothers performing daily chores.
At dinner, LSN arranged for our group to meet with a local journalist at the press club. He was open to our questions and emphasized that the work of LSN with survivors is critical to changing attitudes in a country where landmine survivors has traditionally been shunned by society.
At 11 PM we boarded the train from Hanoi for Dong Hoi.
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