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Acknowledgments Thank you to Michael Spooner for his editorial contributions to and encouragement for National Healing, but also for all he has given and continues to contribute to the profession of composition. Thank you to the anonymous reviewers of my manuscript for their insight, suggestions , and in fact, thank you to everyone with whom I have had contact at Utah State University Press and the University Press of Colorado, including Laura Furney, Beth Anderson, Kelly Neumann, Beth Svinarich, Dan Miller, and Barbara Yale-Read. Thank you, too, to Dan Lowe, Michael Blitz, Harrison Fisher, Derek Owens, Cy Knoblauch, Steve North, Don Byrd, Nancy Mack, Jim Zebroski, Nancy Welch, Elizabeth Boquet, Ann Ott, Dan Collins, Krystia Nora, Cheryl Davis, Carrie Myers, Laila El-Omari, José Vallejo, Donna Singleton, Laura Milner, Nancy Bishop Desommes, Karen McCullough, Muhammed Elgedawy, Karen SorensonLang , Ilham Jan, Lauri Barnes, Kathleen Dudden Rowlands, Maria Rankin-Brown, Janine Rider, Kevin Dvorak, Kimberly Thomas, Amy Lynch-Biniek, Mysti Rudd, Jennifer Johnson, Kathleen Klompien, Julie Peluso-Quinn, Deepak Pant, Dawn Fels, Elizabeth Campbell, Elaine Kelly, Kelli Custer, Heidi Stevenson, Jessica Ganni, Joanna Paull, Peggy Johnson, Stella Sessums Thompson, Ronni Klass-Soffian, Craig Hulst, Kami Day, Michele Eodice, Immaculée Harushimanna, Brian Fotinakes, Melanie Glennon, Anyango Kivuva, and M. G. Gainer. Thanks, as well, to the participants in the advanced seminars in transnationalism (Robin Gallaher, Rachel Goertel, Sarah A. Henderson Lee, Patricia Mathews, Kristene McClure, Jessica Schreyer, Hector M. Serna Dimas, Bashak Tarkan-Blanco, Nicole Warwick, Wan-Ning Yeh) and writing and sustainability (Abdullah F. Al-Badarneh, Ibrahim Ashour, Pisarn Chamcharatsri, Kathleen Foreman, Asuka Iijima, Kyung-Min Kim, Tomoko Odo, Astrid Parrish, John L. Reilly, Laura M. Oliver, Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Wan-Ning Yeh) that I taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the summer and fall of 2009, also to the participants in the International Sustainable Literacy Project (including Hayat Messekher). Thank you to my colleagues in the Graduate Program in Composition and TESOL at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, especially those who xii   national healing have contributed to my thinking in this project: Gian Pagnucci, David Hanauer, Ben Rafoth, Pat and Resa Crane Bizzaro, Mike Williamson, Sharon Deckert, and Gloria Park, and all my past colleagues, especially Don McAndrew and Pat Hartwell. Special thanks to the continuing inspiration of Jim Berlin and Jim Sledd, Bob Boynton, Peter Stillman and to Geneva Smitherman for standing as a model of integrity and generosity for the entire profession. Last, but not least, a heartfelt thank you to the good people of Project Homecoming in New Orleans and the Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church of Puyallup, Washington, for the lessons in humanity. Each of you helped more than you know in ways you never imagined. My thanks may come late, in most cases, but I offer my gratitude here to tell you all how much I have learned from you and how much you mean to me. Most of all, my sister, Sharon. ...

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