David gave me a group of these leaflets and for years when I talked to school children about the war, I would award a mint safe conduct pass to any child that was able to answer a question about the War. If they could tell me who Ho Chi Minh was, or what happened at the Gulf of...
If Nixon had not drawn Cambodia into the war, then none of this would ever have happened. In the immortal (recent) words of the traitor and hopeless fool Jane Fonda, "we caused them" to do it. How it is that Nixon wronged peace and decency when the Vietnamese Communist had not done...
but Vietnam was the war it was born into. Johnson had created the airplane in response to the CIA’s need for something that could fly faster and higher than its subsonic U-2, another Johnson-designed reconnaissance airplane, which the agency had relied on since the...
but Vietnam was the war it was born into. Johnson had created the airplane in response to the CIA’s need for something that could fly faster and higher than its subsonic U-2, another Johnson-designed reconnaissance airplane, which the agency had relied on since the...
Vietnam even skipped the economic woes of 2020 – a feat achieved by less than a dozen countries across the globe. In fact,Vietnam hasn’t experienced a single year of negative growthsince the end of the war. And while the nation remains communist, Pew Research revealed that the Vietnames...
ghost. The Vietnamese seem to have done it. For them, the “American War,” as they call it, is no big deal anymore, what with their much longer “French War,” not to mention the prior “Chinese War.” As the guide put it, “we were at war with China for a thousand years!
So they sent in their troops into Saigon help the South Vietnamese fight the war, thinking that it’ll be an easy victory since they have bombs, tanks and planes. All the North Vietnamese had back then were primitive sticks and stones. ...
After breakfast time, head to historical relic of the Vietnam War – Cu Chi Tunnel. Located some 60 kilometres to the Northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, it will take about one and half hour drive, you get to Cu Chi, where you will widen your knowledge in a network of tunnels. With the...
Until I got to Vietnam. I will not say that the country is obsessed with the war, but at the same time it is hard to avoid it if one walks around with one’s eyes open: the museums, the statues, the rhetoric are all rather conspicuous… it may not be obsession, but I think it...
Take on a full day tour to Cu Chi Tunnels and Mekong Delta (My Tho River) from Ho Chi Minh city. Discover the underground world of the intricate system of tunnels and learn about the history of the Vietnam War. Book with Klook to get discounts on your ne