A morning trip to the 'War Remnants Museum'. This was known until quite recently as the 'Museum of American War Atrocities'.
It is a most sobering place. It is accused of being propoganda but it is clear that it simply serves to show that both sides do seriously bad things in any conflict, the vietnam war being especially unpleasant. The really spooky thing is the undeclared but obvious similarity to Iraq. You leave the place asking 'why are the Americans doing this to themselves all over again?' Nearly 4000 Americans and a much larger number of Iraqis will never learn the outcome of this one, but the outcome for Vietnam seems to have at last become good for this generation of young Vietnamese.
A morning trip to the 'War Remnants Museum'. This was known until quite recently as the 'Museum of American War Atrocities'.
It is a most sobering place. It is accused of being propoganda but it is clear that it simply serves to show that both sides do seriously bad things in any conflict, the vietnam war being especially unpleasant. The really spooky thing is the undeclared but obvious similarity to Iraq. You leave the place asking 'why are the Americans doing this to themselves all over again?' Nearly 4000 Americans and a much larger number of Iraqis will never learn the outcome of this one, but the outcome for Vietnam seems to have at last become good for this generation of young Vietnamese.
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