Independent Lens . BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY . Healing and Remembrance

Tracy's grandmother's hand, reaching to touch Donald Droz's name engraved on the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.

BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY filmmaker Tracy Tragos’ journey in search of the father who died in Vietnam when she was an infant, was difficult but ultimately healing. It brought her to a place of reflection and reconciliation.

We invite you to experience some ways in which we honor and remember, mourn and grieve, celebrate and heal.

Tracy and her mother Judy holding flowers to be placed on the shrine on the Mekong Delta where her father's boat was ambushed.

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