SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Mary Burgen still remembers how 48 years ago she could only stand and listen as the bad news of her son's death in Vietnam washed over.

And Stacy Meredith, given up by her mother when she was two. "As a child, you just don't understand how a parent could ever let you go," she told Petersen. Sister Mary Nelle Gage volunteered at ...

This is Mary Winn, who is a young mother. More than 40 years ago was one of the boat people fleeing Vietnam. My husband told me, we're going to leave tonight, so why two hours before we leave, he ...

We ‘honor’ His Mother, the saints…. as you and I would honor our own ancestors. We don’t worship our ancestors but we keep their memories alive in our hearts and our lives. Thank you!

While Vietnam had progressed to levels impossible to imagine when she fled almost 45 years ago, for my mother, it remains the village she left, but with electricity and running water.