How to Become a Superhero

Vietnam War Side Effects & Jackie Wrafter’s Impressive Life

Jackie Wrafter receiving the MBE, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for the outstanding service she has been doing for the community.

One of the most amazing things about being in the world is the people we meet and one of the most rewarding things about meeting people is how they can be a mirror to our own inner world. Sometimes we believe we will achieve that by exposing ourselves to so-called masters, people who are highly skilled at a particular art which may be meditation or whatever we generally associate with being Zen (which typically includes somehow living secluded from the world). And then we may realize we just get it by doing what we love the most, finding like-minded people and watching or hearing the lives of “ordinary people” who by consistent daily action are “doing the extraordinary” like Jackie Wrafter.

Jackie Wrafter created the Kianh Foundation in 2012, after moving to Vietnam 19 years ago to work with a local orphanage with disabled children. Her work has been changing the lives of hundreds of families and it has granted her an MBE, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for the outstanding service she has been doing for the community.

The Vietnam War

Something that puzzled me was how come there were so many children within this region with disabilities? From 1961 to 1971, U.S. military sprayed more than 20 million gallons of various herbicides over…