How Do You Feel About the War? Haiku from Students' Responses

Field Notes main page	How Do You Feel About the War? Haiku from Students' Responses by Khiet Luong
	Summer 2003 issue


	Recently our ESOL at the Vietnamese American Civic Association has been discussing the USA's military action in Iraq. I asked the students to respond in writing to a question: "How do you feel about the war?" Their responses were brief—no more than one paragraph—and I took some license in paraphrasing the written responses into haikus.

	My name is Thanh Nguyen. Such a simple mistake but still, not a haiku. People will be die a lot of children will have no dad no mom. Sad. I don't like the war. In my country has many many I can't tell— USA do right But I feel sad... people dead I will pray for them. If people like to live in peace they will hate If war is coming. If the war happen every people miss too much I hope no the war. If in your country terrors will be press people reverse within life. Khiet Luong is the English literacy and civics program coordinator at the Vietnamese American Civic Association. He can be reached at: kluong@vacaboston.org
	Originally published in: Field Notes, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Summer 2003) Publisher: SABES/World Education, Boston, MA, Copyright 2003. Posted on SABES Web site: August 2003 Top of Page