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"Peace is giving something to life...Your spirit is living in our hearts and in the Vietnam Friendship Village. --With love, Rosi and Michael Mizo, Hildegard Hohn, and all the people you have touched with your life."
Rosi and Michael Mizo
Just a Silent Farewell .. ..
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In the Memory of George Mizo - Vietnam Friendship Village's Founder dies at the age of 57 at his home in the village of Hofen, Germany on March 18, 2002
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Vien Nguyen
Goodbye and Farewell to you, George
Goodbye and Farewell to you, our friendly American veteran
Our old soldier - you build your Global Friendship Village
Of course we promise one another to follow your path
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George, you say you were sorry
even as smiles bloom upon your lips
George, you say you are happy
even as tears run down your eyes
George, you murmur sweet sayings in American
but millions of Vietnamese farmers understand
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Goodbye George - our common veteran of both the Two Sides
Farewell a noble warrior !
Though I never know you at all
You had generosity and great love to immortalize yourself
While those innocent victimes of war whom you healed and healed yourself
They carve your name onto their own memories
Goodbye and Farewell to you, George: our friendly Vietnam veteran
Goodbye George - our common veteran of both the Two Sides
Farewell a noble warrior !
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You've just realized your dreams: Vietnam Friendship Village
As they had rebuilt Apocalypse in my homeland
George you tell those girls and boys of the Village your jokes
But somehow these are the Truth
You have let those helpless children to go faraway faraway .. ..
However a silent musical string attached exits
Farewell our best friend, George
Our peoples most faithful friend
Farewell George !
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George, you fly into the high sky like a White Dove
And we shall take off into the low sky
And we will meet again one day
Goodbye our best friend !
You fly into the high sky
And we shall take off into the low sky
And we will meet again some day
Farewell our best friend !
* * *
Vietnam Friendship Village
You are Founder, George
You have done your great part
But there are puzzle pieces missing to add
You have spoken your Peace
Yet before you had involved in War
And it seems to me we have been living in an Absurdity Era
Like a small bird drowned into the eyes of tornado
Never knowing which to cling to
When that War began and ended
George, you have transformed and metamorphosed into a White Dove
Your peaceful actions come into reality in Vietnam this time
Like the Pacific Oceans tender waves
George, your legend engraves on our common Two History
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Farewell to Arms: Georgee, please rest in Peace
May the sunshine of millions of Freedom Flowers be generated
Farewell to Arms: now we just can promise one another
We are all together sharing this World at the dawn in Capital Hanoi - the City of Peace
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Vietnam/American Wars battlefields created a great Heart to Love and to Heal
And pain and sorrow by which we share together, our Two Peoples
Even when you go faraway faraway
Oh our memory and remembrance still hounded you
Was this Marshall was found in this lovely personality
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It's Time now: a silent silence
No words no actions
Just a silent farewell
Farewell George
The two Nation Flags are mourning for you our respectable veteran of both the Two Sides
The sunset is at last in the last horizon
And you must go now
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There's something precious to lose forever
There's something beloved to feel bitterly now
There's nothing to happen before and afterwards
Everything around is not the same
Just like seaquake under the Pacific Ocean beyond Vietnam
Farewell George
The sunset is at last in the last horizon
And you must go now
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The two Nation Flags finish fluttering
The wind ceases blowing
White Dove stops flying
Flowers cease blooming
Butterflies stop wandering on Ho Chi Minh Trail in Truong Son Mountains
Goodbye our best George
We - Vietnamese people admire you as symbol as more than a heroic icon
Less than just our legendary General Giap or Liberator & General Eisenhower
Vien Nguyen
Paris March 24, 2002
A Letter From George Mizo
Dear Friends,
We can't change the past. We can't bring back our friends, our sons, our fathers or brothers . . . nor can we bring back the Vietnamese, no matter which side they fought on . . . nor can we bring back the children or other innocent victims of war . . . but we can change the present and the future.
The Viet Nam Friendship Village Project is already making a difference. What was just a dream a short while ago is now becoming a reality.
The Friendship Village project is about healing and hope. About International cooperation. The project has attracted people--veterans and non-veterans, young people and those not so young--from many different countries, many different nationalities and backgrounds, who see that it is possible to set aside our differences and work together for something that is positive.
The Peace and friendship
George
An Important Lesson
-- by George Mizo
You, my parents, taught me that it was wrong to kill . . . except in war.
You, my church, taught me that it was wrong to kill . . . except in war.
You, my teachers, taught me that it was wrong to kill . . . except in war.
You, my government, taught me that it was wrong to kill . . . except in war.
Then you sent me to war
And when I had no choice . . . except to kill,
Then you told me I was wrong!
And now I will tell you . . . my parents.
. . . my church.
. . . my teachers.
. . . my government.
It is not wrong to kill . . . except in war.
It is wrong to kill period!
And this you have to learn . . .
Just as I had to!
-- by George Mizo
George Mizo & Nguyễn Hữu Viện
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