 Hi, I'm Erin Fung Steinhauer. I am the co-founder and executive director of Vietnam Society. My name is Le Hoang Ling. I'm the deputy head of the English Division at Vietnam International, Vietnam Television International, VTV4, also the director of a film called Fragments of Memory. My name is Bob March. I was in the military from the time I was 18 years old until I was 21. I was a paratrooper in Vietnam, and I fought in that war. I was invited here to participate in a conference here today that has to do with war, peace and reconciliation. My film is about, you know, like American veterans. They are the witnesses, and they took part in the battle, and they saw how, where they, they themselves buried the Vietnamese soldiers in mass graves, and they now came back with the help of Vietnamese researchers, Vietnamese veterans also, all together in the former team to search for mass grave at Elzeburg in Suen Sơn, Big Ling province, Vietnam. These currently have more than 200,000 missing soldiers that they can't account for, and their families are desperately trying to find them, trying to find what happened to them. They suffer greatly for that. So obviously finding where the remains are for their soldiers is a big deal to them. It's extremely important. It means a lot to them. There's cultural and religious reasons why it means a lot to them. So in helping them find, in helping the families gain knowledge about those soldiers, it clearly brings Vietnam and Vietnamese and Americans together. Vietnam society is put together, it's established to bring together Vietnamese and Americans in the way in which we leverage the transcendent power of art and culture. For younger generations, we want to have art and culture as a way for them to reconnect with their roots, but also for artists for them to reconnect with each other and to connect to a broader global audience to overcome the trauma of the Vietnam War. And since then, we have seen significant progress that has been made by the two countries to overcome some of those war legacies as led by Senator Leahy and many others. However, we see significant work that still needs to be done, particularly the area of reconciliation and reconnections between people and communities. I realize that not many American veterans understand fully about the importance of their memories, how it plays a vital role in bringing peace and reconciliation to millions of Vietnamese families. They thought that they wanted to forget the past and they wanted to bury all those horrible memories back in their mind and they never wanted to bring it out. So through my film, I want to send a message that the broken memories matter. Memories are fragile after 57 years. They're narrowly focused. A critical path for finding mass graves is using witness information. So the challenge really right now is to find more witnesses for other locations in Vietnam and get them on board with telling their stories. I think it's great that the U.S. and Vietnam are now having such a great level of relationship. Now in the more microscopic view, I believe that with that elevated relationship that there's further opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of what veterans are doing in working directly with the Vietnamese. I see it as an opportunity for reconciliation and reconnection on both sides. It could also bring a new era of mutual understanding for people of both sides and I would encourage both governments to consider forging a strategic initiative focused on the reconciliation of people and communities. There will be more opportunities of American veterans and Vietnamese working together in the common goal of looking for graves of Vietnamese socials and also American socials as well. More people will open their minds to work with us in this project and it means that faster collection of information before it's too late.