LA CROSSE — Kim D. Barbier, age 82, of La Crosse, Wis., passed peacefully on July 7 in her home, lovingly surrounded by her three children. Kim was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, on August 20, 1939, to ...

Kim Barbier's memories of her native Vietnam have always been of a nation at war. But that changed in November when Barbier traveled to her homeland with a group from the La Crosse area.