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Claude Anshin Thomas (born 1947) is an American Zen Buddhist monk and Vietnam War veteran. He is an international speaker, teacher and writer, and an advocate of non-violence. He is an international speaker, teacher and writer, and an advocate of non-violence.
Vietnam: Lotus in a sea of fire. New York, Hill and Wang. 1967. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation, Beacon Press, 1975. ISBN 978-0807012321. Being Peace, Parallax Press, 1987. ISBN 0-938077-00-7. The Sun My Heart, Parallax Press, 1988. ISBN 0-938077-12-0; The Moon Bamboo, Parallax Press, 1989. ISBN 0938077201.
In 1966, he left Vietnam in exile and established the Plum Village Monastery in France. He founded the Order of Interbeing and wrote more than one hundred books about Buddhism, which made him a popular Buddhist author in the West. In his books and talks, Thich Nhat Hanh emphasized mindfulness (sati) as the
Kabat-Zinn was born in New York City in 1944 as the oldest of three children to Elvin Kabat, a biomedical scientist, and Sally Kabat, a painter.He graduated from Haverford College in 1964 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1971 from MIT, where he studied under Salvador Luria, Nobel Laureate in medicine.
This series came from a determination to understand why, and to explore how their way back from war can be smoothed. Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues.
RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era Duong Van Mai Elliott is a Vietnamese author, writer and translator. Her memoir, The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family (Oxford University Press), [ 1 ] tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese family.
Marine Staff Sgt. Felipe Tremillo also is struggling with guilt. Two years after he came home from his second combat tour, Tremillo is still haunted by images of the women and children he saw suffer from the violence and destruction of war in Afghanistan. “Terrible things happened to the people we are supposed to be helping,” he said.
The first Irish American to receive the Medal was Michael Madden, who received it for his actions in the American Civil War (Note that the earliest action for which the Medal of Honor was awarded was to Irish American U.S. Army Assistant Surgeon Bernard J.D. Irwin for the engagement at Apache Pass, February 1861. The award was made three ...