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Wrote Ajit V. Pai '94, minority students too often times segregate themselves from the larger Harvard community, which may hurt attempts toward racial harmony...
...Pai said The Wall has been successful in making students more aware of various perspectives regarding race...
Midway up the trail we met Trieu Van Hin, the party chief of Suoi Pai hamlet, close to the crash site. He had led a squad of villagers to hack some of the foliage away from the trail, clearing our path. Almost exactly 26 years earlier, Hin had been one of the first people to arrive at the scene of the crash, less than half a mile from the present location of Suoi Pai hamlet...
...evidence remains strong that bones are being warehoused in Vietnam. Moreover, the central government's efforts to collect remains held by its citizens have been halfhearted at best. A week after our trip to Suoi Pai, we traveled to Ho Chi Minh City and put out the word that we were interested in MIA bones. Leads flooded in. A Vietnamese military officer passed along photocopies of the personal effects of three servicemen that supposedly came from graves dug up by impoverished soldiers in Kontum province...
Early in 1991 Phe and three of his sons had done some digging at the Scharf crash site. They trekked to Suoi Pai from their village on the other side of the mountain and made a few small excavations on either side of the plot that someone else had already uncovered. Sifting through the dirt from the earlier dig, Phe says, he found a zipper "still working" and some eyelets from a boot. A tantalizing lead, but, as is so often the case in these investigations, another dead end. On the way back down the mountain, says Phe, his sons...