Editorial August 7, 2000 Issue

Healing old hurts

Margaret Rogers

God never stops loving us.

Twenty-five years after the end of the war in Vietnam, there's renewed interest in how people who lived through that troubled period in Southeast Asia have fared. Despite terrible losses, many have found peace in their hearts. For others, though, an inner struggle continues. In a recent PBS interview, one woman recounted the brutal story of her family's flight from Cambodia. Now a college student in Stockton, California, Pov Chin softly recited a verse from the poem "Minstrel Man" by Langston Hughes, which she says describes her:

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