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Save Yourself From Loneliness -- Adopt a family
Words From the Wise -- a regular column from NAM's Ethnic Elders News Beat, Commentary, Jeanine Wais-Sullivan as told to Carolyn Goosen, Mar 03, 2009
Recently a family of three moved in with Jeanine Wais-Sullivan, 70, when they lost their house in Richmond. Wais says the new living arrangement has helped her feel less alone and it allows her to help a struggling family who has become her own.
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The Pluck of the Irish
New America Media, Commentary, Tony McMahon as told to Jalal Ghazi, Feb 19, 2009
Tony McMahon came to the United States at the age of 17 from Dublin. Now a widower, with a heart condition, after a lifetime of driving cabs, he struggles to get by on the kindness of his neighbors.
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Setting the Record Straight on South Vietnam
New America Media, Commentary, Lam Quang Thi, as told to Andrew Lam, Feb 11, 2009
Born in the Mekong Delta in 1932 to a wealthy land-owning family, Thi Quang Lam spent 25 years in the army and rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the South Vietnamese army by the time the Vietnam war ended. He talked to his son, Andrew Lam, an editor with New America Media.
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Golden Girls Behind Bars
New America Media, News Feature, Viji Sundaram,  Cliff Parker, Feb 09, 2009
Last month, prisoner Number W 41465 passed away, her greatest wish unfulfilled: to die a free person. Eighty-eight years old, nearly blind and deaf, her mind enfeebled by Alzheimer’s and in the terminal stages of kidney failure, Helen Loheac was "a tiny old woman who just wanted to be released.”
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Word From the Wise: Celebrating Lunar New Year and Long Life
New America Media, Interview, Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen, Jan 26, 2009
Tam Kwai Lan, 92, was born in Hong Kong in 1917. She now lives in Toronto and celebrated Chinese Lunar New Year with her family, and told her granddaughter, a NAM writer, about her life and the new year's tradition.
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Advocates for Ethnic Elders Look Beyond Inaugural Euphoria
New America Media, News Analysis, Paul Kleyman, Jan 25, 2009
Advocates for ethnic elders around the country are eager to see their agendas addressed by the new Obama Administration, with particular attention to healthcare, jobs and affordable housing. NAM contributor Paul Kleyman examines the challenges facing these constituencies in the deepening recession.
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This Man Is God-sent, Says 83-Year-Old Civil Rights Vet
New America Media, Commentary, Betty Shavers, as told to Teresa Moore, Jan 19, 2009
As a black woman who lived through the civil rights struggle in Danville, Va. -- a former tobacco and cotton town best known as the “Last Capitol of the Confederacy” -- 83-year-old Betty Shavers never imagined she’d see an African American elected president of the United States.
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