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LUONG & PETER  
   

LUONG & PETER

Peter, one of our long term volunteers from Australia helps Luong transfer onto her new motorbike for the ride home.
THE LOVELY MISS LUONG'S STORY

August 17th 2008
During the last year or so of the American War (as it is termed in Vietnam) Luong was a happy twelve-year old living with her family in a village thirty kilometres from Hoi An. Then one fateful day a bomb was dropped so close to her family home that it was instantly incinerated. Whilst the rest of her family scrambled out of the inferno relatively unscathed, Luong's lower body took part of the bla ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Victoria

Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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