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♦ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2006
6A
Daddy, why don't we eat dinosaurs?
The lesson began where
most of my wisdom
is dispensed - in the
corner booth at the Dairy
Queen.
“Daddy, why don’t we eat
dinosaurs?” My 4-year-old
son asked before a kids’ meal
of chicken fingers and fries.
“Uh, what do you mean?”
“Why don’t we eat dino
saurs? We eat cows and
chickens and milk,” he asked
earnestly. “Why don’t we eat
dinosaurs?”
“Well, son, they’re no lon
ger around,” I explained.
“They’re extinct.”
His little blonde brow fur
rowed.
“We don’t eat them because
they stink? Then why does
mommy eat cabbage?”
A good question indeed.
“No, son, they are EX
TINCT,” I stated slowly.
“That means they are no
longer alive. There aren’t
Reconciliation from Vietnam to Iraq
Vietnam and the
United States “have a
history,” in the nega
tive sense of the colloquial
expression.
Last week’s trip to Hanoi
by President George W. Bush
was about forging a new,
positive relationship - a new
and better history.
After notingthat Vietnam’s
prime minister had educated
his children in the United
States, Bush observed, “It
shows how hopeful the world
can be and how people can
reconcile and move beyond
past difficulties for the com
mon good.”
Bush used the tough but
necessary word: reconcile.
Yes, a realpolitik energizes
the emerging U.S.-Vietnam
rapprochement. Vietnam
worries about Asia’s
“Colossus of the North,”
China. The Vietnamese
believe a solid Hanoi-
Washington relationship will
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any dinosaurs around any
more. They are all dead.”
He immediately shot back,
“No they aren’t.”
“Yes they are.”
“No they aren’t.”
He’s 4 and thinks he knows
eve r y
thing. 1
can’t wait
until he’s
14.
“Listen,
dinosaurs
died a long
time ago,
I’m tell
ing you.
I learned
it in ele
mentary
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school. When you get to ele
mentary school, Mr. Know-
It-All, you’ll learn that too,”
I said emphatically.
He chewed on that for a
while, and his chicken strip.
“Well, daddy, I saw a real,
counter Chinese hegemony.
Washington and Hanoi
want to establish a mutually
advantageous trading rela
tionship. In colloquial terms,
that trans
lates as,
“Let’s
make
money
together.”
Capitalist
victory?
You bet. In
Vietnam,
commu
nism is
kaput as
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an economic model it is
litter in history’s dustbin.
But realpolitik, without
the solidifying bond of rec
onciliation, is politically
frail. Astute Vietnamese and
Americans understand sym
bolic closure isn’t full emo
tional or historical closure,
but it serves individual as
well as international needs.
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live dinosaur on TV yester
day. They’re real!”
“Son, that was on TV You
can’t believe everything you
see on TV - except for wres
tling, of course ...”
“But daddy, I saw a tee
wan-a-saw-us wex. I did - I
saw it. It’s real! On TV On
that movie you watched with
me - Youassmic Park,” he
said in a flurry of conviction
and mispronunciation.
“That was Jurassic Park,
and that was a movie. Make
believe. Like a cartoon. It’s
not real. Trust me,” I said to
deflated ears.
He was about to disagree
once again, but I gave him
“the look.” He knew better
and dipped a french fry in
his self-proclaimed “ketchup
puddle.”
It gave him time to think.
“Daddy, if the dinosaurs
are dead, when did they
die?”
A number of American
Vietnam War veterans have
visited Vietnam, many mak
ing their own separate peace.
Vietnamese-Americans have
also increased contacts with
their “old country,” includ
ing re-establishing family
ties. As the country opens
for business, Vietnam’s
Communist Party will even
tually confront empow
ered domestic critics. The
Communists’ depredations
will require Vietnamese
examination and recon
ciliation. Vietnam may ulti
mately consider some form
of domestic “reconciliation
commission.”
Cynics tend to dismiss
“reconciliation commis
sions” as feel-good gestures,
but this is another case of
cynicism masking ignorance,
for these commissions offer
hope to deeply fissured soci
eties.
The most successful
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Good question.
“A long, long time ago,”
was my sage reply.
“How long ago?”
“Oh, I don’t know - proba
bly thousands of years ago,”
I said, realizing he has no
concept of time at all.
“How old were you when
they died?” See what I
mean?
“They died thousands of
years before I was born too.
I’m only hundreds of years
old,” 1 said to ears of no
understanding.
“Daddy, why did they
die?”
Thank God I had just taken
a huge bite out of my double
cheeseburger. Gave me time
to do some thinking.
“Well,” I said with a swal
low. “Sometimes, species
can’t adapt to their envi
ronment and nature ren
ders them extinct. They
don’t have what it takes,
example is South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC).Thecom
mission was established in
1995 by then-South African
President and 1993 Nobel
laureate Nelson Mandela.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
another Nobel Peace Prize
winner, served as chairman.
The goal wasn’t punishment
for crimes per se, but open
examination of suffering
and suffering’s individual
and societal consequences.
Clinical psychologist
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
served on the commission.
She also personally wit
nessed a massacre in 1960.
Her book, “A Human
Being Died That Night,”
chronicles her own personal
struggle with forgiveness in
the face of great evil - while
acknowledging that forgive
ness is essential if South
Africa had any chance of
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see.” Somewhere, one of my
teachers is fainting.
“Why didn’t the dinosaurs
just drink a Coke or some
water?”
“Uh, um, they didn’t have
any water?”
“Why not?"
“Uh, um, er, the volcano
swallowed it,” I muttered.
“What volcano?,” which he
actually pronounced “wall
cane-oh.”
“The volcano that burned
all the dinosaurs. That’s
how they became extinct
and died,” I said hurriedly.
“Now, are you going to eat
that chicken strip because
it’s time to go.” And I was
still hungry.
He nodded yes, then
dipped the chicken strip in
his ketchup puddle.
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