Who Are Your ‘Remarkables’? Trail to Redemption: Love and War in Vietnam by Dr. Richard Stevens
The True Story of an Asian Woman Superhero: Her Capture, Interrogation, and Escape, and the Search for Her 26 Years Later, in Dr. Richard Stevens’s new book, Trail to Redemption: Love and War in Vietnam
On a midsummer night in 1969 under a full moon, Richard L. Stevens helped capture a Viet Cong guerrilla leader named Hoang Thi Nu, the “Vietnamese Annie Oakley.” What he saw her do that night, leaping into a river and running through gunfire, and what she endured afterwards in captivity, changed Stevens’s mind about what humans are capable of, and about war. Stevens was the sole American advisor to a South Vietnamese unit of 105 “ex”-Viet Cong whose mission was to uncover enemy activity along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and this fast-paced, real-life adventure story captures the frenzied and fearful flavor of a war in which it was often difficult to know who the enemy was. Trail to Redemption is a story of betrayal, capture, interrogation, imprisonment and escape, and the intertwining paths of a Vietnamese woman warrior and a former U.S. Marine. Above all, it is a story of personal courage, love, and respect.
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Dr. Stevens, who last spoke to HTMC on Ancient Hawaiian Trails in August of 2021, helped capture on the mid-summer full moon “Night of Wandering Souls” in 1969, the “Vietnamese Annie Oakley.” What he saw her do that night, and what she endured after, changed his mind about what humans are capable of, and about the war. His book tells the story he will share with us, and he will also report on the new 706-acre Palamanui Forest Preserve on Hawaii Island, and the opportunity for an HTMC hike and trail-restoration project there.
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5:30 pm Potluck
7:00 pm Presentation
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