[Vnbiz] Welcom chi Pham Thuy Duong into VNBIZ

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear CACC,

Please join to welcome chi Pham Thuy Duong into our VNBIZ family.

Chi Thuy Duong pthuyduong at yahoo.com  knows of us via chi Romi (Thanks,
Romi).  She has a MS and is a fellow researcher in environment science
at Laboratory
of Applied Environmental Chemistry, Mikkeli, University of Kuopio, Finland,
Mobile: +358449260974.  Blog: http://360.yahoo.com/daisypenelope

To answer to our subscription's question "Anything else you would like to
say about yourself?" Thuy Duong wrote: "Together, we build!"  That is
incredible, sister.  Such a succinct and powerful response!  Welcome in!
Let's build our nation together.  I want to hear that every day.

Chi Dieu Anh gave me two diaries a while ago, one by Dang Thuy Tram and one
by Nguyen Van Thac. Once in a while I re-read these diaries, to relive the
intense feelings of the girls and the boys of my generation, in their early
twenties, about sacrificing their lives to defend the nation.  What an honor
to die for your nation!  Then I think about our current college generation,
I realize that this generation is also in a great war today.  It is the war
against poverty and backwardness.  It is the great struggle to bring our
nation out of the thousand-year shadow of a third world country, to the top
of the world.

And this is the most difficult war of all, because the primary enemy is
ourselves.  We are our own enemy.  It is much easier to knock some guy
unconscious on the street than to see our own mistakes and ignorance and
then have the will to fix them.  In addition, in a typical war, we have
probably one or two nations as the opponent.  In this long
development struggle, we have to beat every single country on the planet
until we climb up to the first rank of the world.

So, for this generation, we have to see our major role in history, to
fulfill it.  Our forefathers have never dared to think about being on top of
the world.  They were just happy to be independent from China and to be at
peace under the Chinese shadow.  That can no longer be true.  That can no
longer be true.  That can no longer be true.  We need to break out of that
second-class and third-class mentality.  We will not be happy and satisfied
until Vietnam is in the exclusive G3 club of the world (if there is such
club).  We all may not live to see that day, but we know our nation will get
there, because this generation will lay the foundation and will chart the
course.  Any long road needs a starting point.  And the road to the top of
the world is started by this generation, the generation that has the
confidence of a champion and the vision large enough to cover the world
every day.

Have a great day!

Hoanh


-- 
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
Washington DC
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