New Year's Wish

Surprising dawn

Phu Quoc Island, site of my father’s 1975 evacuation.

From my 2015 Vietnam trip journal:

As I recapped the events of my trip and of the days of 40 years past, it dawned on me that it was one of those serendipitous times when you know you are in the right place at the right time.

For a Vietnam story, that’s a rarity.

On the evening of April 30th, I said wonderingly to my daughter, “This has been the best day.”

I had not expected that.

May we greet the dawning of 2024 open to the possibilities of many more such surprises.

Dawn on April 30, 2015 the 40th anniversary of the end of the American War in Vietnam.