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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

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Admiral Stockdale replied that he never wavered in his faith that he would get out and, more importantly, he would turn his time as a POW at the Hanoi Hilton into a defining event of his life, that in retrospect he would NOT trade. Keeping my team and my family focused on what we CAN control : our work, our attitudes, our routines.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? At the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (search "Vietnam" here ), staff have told me that participatory projects work best when a community of participants is engaged in a group process where they can come to consensus and defer to the group.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? At the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (search "Vietnam" here ), staff have told me that participatory projects work best when a community of participants is engaged in a group process where they can come to consensus and defer to the group.

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Memorial Day 2012

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It was here I was taught that we are all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It was here that I was taught the meaning of America, early in the Cold War in this small town in the Alleghany Mountains. That was 1970. We are not enemies, but friends.

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