Keeping peace in a land of despair

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wovolu304099582dec30,0,2024839.story

For three decades, longtime Islip resident Thomas Brinson was haunted by his experience as a soldier in Vietnam. He had raised money for an orphanage there and befriended some orphans who were later killed or maimed during crossfire amid the Tet Offensive.

To atone for what he viewed as his sins and those of the United States, his stepdaughter said, Brinson signed up as an international peace worker in war-torn Sri Lanka. He monitors human rights and helps protect people at high risk in a zone on the northeast coast partly controlled by rebels.

Now Brinson is in the middle of another calamity. His village of Mutur was among the hardest hit by the tsunami...

This guy comes from the land of the magnetic ribbon: Lawn Guyland. A great story.