Not sure what I wrote that got so much attention from your country recently. While I dislike communism intensely, I can admire the fact that the Vietnamese fought several powerful countries (China, France, Japan, US) back-to-back and emerged victorious. Even counting the atomic bombs, Vietnam is the most bombed country in history. And yet today it flourishes and has friendly relations with its former enemies. There's a lesson in that.
Here is a famous song by an American soldier. There was a Vietnamese beer called 33, which in Vietnamese sounds like bah-moy-bah. In the song, it got garbled into ba-mi-ba.
This North Vietnamese propaganda film was captured and translated by US military intelligence:
And here it is, the big cheese: the fall of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City:
Ex GIs and VC forgive each other:
US medic returns bones to VC whose arm he amputated:
Perhaps someday I will visit. Until then, I will enjoy pho soup and other such delicacies from time to time.
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