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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Greetings:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I am new to this list and I wanted to provide a brief intro</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">duction to you regarding our project.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Since 1989, the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech has been promoting the study and preserving the history of the US experience in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Vietnam, especially during</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the Vietnam War. Since that time, we have collected</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">more than 20 million pages of material in our tradi</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">tional archive, have more than 500 interviews in our oral history project, and provide free online access to nearly 3 million pages of archival material via our Virtual Vietnam Archive. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> must admit that, i</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">n some ways, I regre</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t the current name of our project,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The Vietnam Center and Archive</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> as it is too restrictive in terms of our actual mission</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and scope. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">We changed it to this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">shorter name</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">in the mid-1990s as our board felt the previous name was too long</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the Center</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict. While</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">it was</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">longer, it was</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> also</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">far more accurate in describing our work which</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">involves</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the entire theater and all nations involved</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> to include Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">We have many archival collections that cover</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">historical</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">events an</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">d activities in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. In</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">addition</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, our current activities to promote the study of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the role of the US in Southeast Asia as well as reconciliation between our nations includes scholarships and other</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">university</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> projects in Vietnam, Laos</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, and Cambodia.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">You can learn more about our project online here:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">www.vie</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">t</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">nam.ttu.edu</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I hope you will visit our website and I look forward to participating in this discussion about</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Best regards,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Steve</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Stephen Maxner, P</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial Unicode MS">h.D.<BR>
Director<BR>
The Vietnam Center<BR>
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The Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University<BR>
Special Collections Library Room 108<BR>
15th and Detroit<BR>
Lubbock, TX</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> 79409-1041<BR>
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Phone:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> 806-742-9010<BR>
Fax:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> 806-742-0496<BR>
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