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OPB program highlights Vietnam widows
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From I left to right: Xuan X Z Ngoc
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Portland. a* Oregon,
Bia Window Rock, Ariz., Barbara Sonneborn Berkley, Calif,
Norma Banks Vallejo, Nguyer Thi My Hien, Hanoi, Vietnam.
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War widows from
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join forces for five
city tour to mark
25th anniversary of
the end of the war
CONTRIBUTED STORY
EO r T he P o RILAS d O b SLRSLK
“There were times,” says Norma
Banks o f Vallejo, California, “ when 1
wanted to give up and forget about
it.”
“ It” was the painful experience of
fighting the system for recognition
and benefits owed to her late husband,
Michael - a casualty of war in V ietnam.
Unlike many soldiers who died in the
trenches fighting that controversial
war, Michael Banks died years later
o f a mysterious cancer now known to
be caused by a chem ical-based
weapon called Agent Orange.
After years o f having few people to
tell her story to, Norma Banks agreed
to participate in a documentary film
created by B arbara Sonneborn,
hersel f a widow o f Vietnam War.
Sonneborn ’ s film, titled REGRET TO
INFORM - drawing on the first words
oftheofticial government notification
o f a death in the armed services (“ We
reg ret to inform you th a t...” ),
eventually was nominated for an
A cad em y
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Documentary. It reveals the headache
and pain o f the woman - both
American and Vietnamese - who lost
husbands and families to the war.
REGRETTO INFORM will premiere
on television as part of PBS's “P. V .0 .”
series o f independent non-fiction
films on Monday, January 24,2000 at
10:00 PM ET (check local station
schedules to confirm date and time).
The film is “ so exquisitely filmed,
edited, and sored," wrote Stephen
Holden i n the New York T imes, “it is
the documentary equivalent o f a
tragic epic poem. Every word and
image quivers with an anguished
resonance.”
Norma met Michael Banks in 1970,
two years after he got out o f the
Army. They were married five years
later, and had a daughter, Michelle.
Norma also had a daughter, Deanna
- by a previous marriage - whom
Michael helped raise. Beginning in
1980, Michael began to suspect
something was wrong. He started
breaking out with lesions, and suffered
a constant itch on his back. After
seven years o f suffering, researchers
at Stanford University - working in
c o n c e rt w ith th e V e te ra n s
A d m in istratio n - sta rte d w hat
Michael had long feared: that he had
cancer from Agent Grange. He began
radiation therapy and also was treated
with chemotherapy before his death.
Michael died in 1989. There were no
fo rm al
ap o lo g ie s
and
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