The title of this post represents a greeting and a farewell as expressed by the peoples of Puerto Limón, Costa Rica during my service as a Peace Corps volunteer.

I will never forget the returned volunteer medically evacuated and flown home from her Peace Corps service with one leg less, and as she struggled with cultural and medical readjustment problems in the States she also became a competitive swimmer and an inspiration to millions of people.

Or, the brilliant woman from Michigan who was assigned as a Peace Corps volunteer to an African country...400 miles down a dirt tract and lived next to the village chief who had multiple wives and beat them regularly. And she was beaten... But, somehow survived and became stronger... and became an assistant to the Dalai Lama.

Or, those who left for Peace Corps as boys and returned as permanently physically and/or emotionally scarred men.

Or the hundreds of Other Returned Peace Corps volunteers, whose stories are equally compelling. I have been honored to have the privilege of knowing such people. Thanks for noticing.

I believe, our purpose is not only to survive, but help others survive. The challenges of survival for the peoples of Mexico, Central and South America are much greater than the challenges of survival in Iowa.

May we no longer be strangers.

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