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A Seattle-area group's mission to cover the lingering wounds of the Vietnam War with peace trees will go on this week, but without the spiritual and intellectual guide who helped to make the trip possible.

Danaan Parry, the Bainbridge Island nuclear physicist who gave up science in the 1970s to practice citizen diplomacy and humanitarianism, died of a heart attack Wednesday, Nov.

13. He was 57.

His travels in the name of peace and cultural bridge-building took him from Pakistan to Northern Ireland, from Russia to Jordan.

PeaceTrees Vietnam, the mission Mr. Parry and his wife of four years, Jerilyn Brusseau, had organized through their nonprofit Earthstewards Network plans to send 43 volunteers to the Quang Tri Province, the so-called Demilitarized Zone where undetonated explosives have maimed thousands of unsuspecting civilians since the war ended two decades ago.

The volunteers, including U.S.

veterans of the Vietnam War, will spend th