Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit opened with a dialogue between thirty veterans from the United States and a similar number from Vietnam including women members of the Saigon underground who were jailed and tortured.
In October 2016, Ms. Huynh Ngoc Van, Director of Vietnam’s War Remnants Museum, asked Ron Carver to create an exhibit telling the story of the GI Movement. It premiered at the museum on March 19, 2018. The opening was attended by many notable Vietnamese guests along with thirty American veterans of the Vietnam War. Three were deserters; two still living in Sweden and one from Canada. The following day a program included a dialogue between the American veterans and their Vietnamese counterparts. The exhibit was displayed for four weeks before beginning a tour of rural areas of Vietnam.
Ron Carver and Ms Huynh Ngoc Van
Mme Ton Nu Thi Ninh organized and moderated the dialogue between the Vietnamese and American veterans. Formerly Vietnam's ambassador to the European Union, Mme Nigh is the president of the Ho Chi Minh City Foundation for Peace and Development
On opening day, exhibit curator Ron Carver gives a copy of the antiwar newspaper produced by Fort Dix GIs to Dr. Tran Xuan Thao, director of the War Remnants Museum. The Dix GIs called themselves the Soldiers Liberation Front or SLF.
The War Remnants Museum was rated as one of the ten best museums in the world by Trip Advisor. More than two million visitors come to the museum each year to learn about the legacies of the French, Japanese and American wars.
