Sixty-four years ago today, Sept. 22, the original Peace Corps Act was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy. Through the years the Peace Corps continues to be one of the most recognizable examples of U.S. good will around the world.

At this point, nearly 250,000 American citizens have served as Peace Corps volunteers in more than 140 nations. This includes almost 1,300 volunteers from Utah , and I’m proud to be one of them. In the 1970s I trained special education teachers at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea. Working with people with disabilities was a low status occupation in Korea at the time, and I like to think we American Peace Corps volunteers helped to elevate the profession. Thirty years later, special education training programs in Korea had grown by 30

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