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This book is a fascinating account of the lives of Wesley Smith, a Foreign Service Reserve Agricultural Officer, and his wife, Glad, the narrator, and their three children. Shortly after retirement from the Department of State, Wes suffered a cardiac arrest while working with a Foreign Students Program at the University of Missouri. He stepped briefly into God's Time but was resuscitated and brought back into our time. The writer uses the seven years shared before his physical death as a thread to weave together their actual and spiritual journeys, with love as a common denominator. The reader is taken from the halcyon days of Vietnam in 1956, through the gradual deterioration of a beautiful culture by 1961. After a 5 ½ year tour in Turkey, Wes is urgently requested to return to the tragic maze of Vietnam for another two years (1966-68). After a Washington, D.C. interlude, Wes was asked to go to East Pakistan, just the year before the bloody birth of Bangladesh. That tour was terminated on the last evacuation plane out. After an interim in Thailand, Wesley's Foreign Service career was finalized in the independent southern African countries of Lesotho and Swaziland (1971-75). In the framework of the present time journey, the writer shares insights on man's universal ability to face adversities and tragedies with Faith and humor always with the hope of having planted seeds of Peace along the way.
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Seeds of Peace: A Narrative Journey of a 20th Century Foreign Service Family, Gladys Klothe Smith
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- 2000
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