Vietnamese woman during a bombing attack. Photograph courtesy of Educational & Television Films, LTD

For information on upcoming screenings, appearances, and events having to do with REGRET TO INFORM, please visit the web site at Sun Fountain Productions.

Here are some ways that you can participate in your own community:

• Share your thoughts, stories and reactions to REGRET TO INFORM and the Vietnam War with other viewers at the True Lives website.
• Visit the LETTERS FROM THE HEART Online Memorial. Write or read a letter that pays tribute to someone who died in the war and gives voice to those who were left behind.
• Provide broadcast "tune-in" information to your personal email lists, to your place of worship and their newsletter, or in your workplace. A list of dates and times that the show will be broadcast in 2005 in your area is available on the True Lives website. (Check back frequently because broadcast information for local PBS stations is only available for the next two weeks.)
• Watch REGRET TO INFORM with neighbors, co-workers, family, or friends, and talk about what you have seen and how it affected you. If the broadcast is too late in your area to have a discussion afterward, get together the next day, or tape it to watch at a more convenient time.
• Set up a screening of REGRET TO INFORM at your local community center, veterans hall, library, place of worship, or at your workplace. Download a copy of the REGRET TO INFORM facilitator's guide (PDF) created by POV's Television Race Initiative.
• Talk to your local high schools about showing REGRET TO INFORM as a part of their history, social studies, or women's history curricula. Ask us for additional information to provide to teachers. (Veterans for Peace, a national peace activist group comprised of veterans of war, suggests REGRET TO INFORM as a "reality check" for the war glory films that youth are often shown.)
• Initiate local dialogue in your community newspaper(s) and on your local talk radio stations about peace and the legacy of war. Contact us for resources to do this, or look to your local library for background material.
• Write your own thoughts about the legacy of war, about the 30th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam (April 30, 2005), or about the film REGRET TO INFORM and send them to the op-ed pages of your local newspaper.
• Bring together veterans, widows, youth, peace activists, and faith leaders to talk about ways to create an appropriate "remembrance" in your community.
• Interview a relative, neighbor, or friend who was involved in the war and write about their experiences. Create your own personal response to the war: write a poem or story, make a short film, or put on a play. Be creative and involve others as much as you can.
• Create your own memorial to those who survived.
• Hold a book club meeting. Read a book about war experiences and discuss the meaning of war in our world and some ways that we might prevent it.Find a list of suggested fiction and nonfiction accounts, films about the war in Vietnam, and organizations and web sites in our resource section where you can get more information.
• Seek out women's, veterans, peace organizations or faith-based resources to support you in your efforts.
• Volunteer to maintain memorials to those who died in war.
• Teach peace to your children.
• Think about the toys you buy for the children in your life. What kind of play do they encourage? Try to avoid those that foster violence.
• Vote your conscience.
• Find faith in your own heart and home to remember those who have died, to honor those who survived, and to prevent war.