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Kat Fitzpatrick | Teacher, Presenter, Author
For over a decade I have told my Vietnam story to numerous people. With each conversation, I notice a keen interest, an aching confusion, and a longing for a new relationship to the word, “Vietnam.” It is, after all, not only a war.
The Vietnam Era is a difficult topic. The freshness of the stories I have to share—my family’s time there just before the Fall of Saigon and my father’s extraordinary evacuation of over 1000 people at the end of the war—bring a new vibrant energy to a time period we must not forget.
My presentations blend historical context, heartfelt emotion, and one-of-a-kind ephemera to engage students not only in the historical era but with the experience of connecting our personal stories to the wider world.
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Kat Fitzpatrick, Keynote Speaker, Round Lake Veterans Day Service, 2023
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