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Prove My Soul: Another Side to the Vietnam War
January 15, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeFrom 1966-1967, Brian M. Biggs served a unique tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine Civic Action Officer, an assignment that included teaching English to elementary school teachers in the village of Hoà M? – a life-changing experience that developed cherished friendships which have lasted to this day. His three return trips to Vietnam in 2001, 2004, and 2006 allowed those friendships to flourish. Those visits also unraveled a mystery born out of the chaos and confusion that was the Vietnam War. A mystery that mistakenly cast him as a spy for the South Vietnamese government and brought to light the role he played in the fate of one of the teachers suspected of being Vietcong. Biggs’s Prove My Soul: Another Side to the Vietnam War (Hellgate) straddles decades and is full of wry humor and unintended consequences… offering a remarkable look at a seldom seen side of the Vietnam War.