Friday, February 28, 2014

Wild Ho Chi Minh City Traffic




BLU-82 Seismic Bomb



Vietnam War Aircraft



The Realities of the Vietnam War


Gruesome Deaths






Murders in Vietnam



Lieutenant (Senator) Bob Kerry's Actions in Vietnam





Wife Killed by Stray Bullet


Struck by a stray bullet while selling prawns at a local market, she fell and died at the feet of her stunned husband.



'…we were wrong, terribly wrong.'


Absurd Amounts of Bombs, Weapons, and Soldiers




South Korean Involvement in the Vietnam War



Justifications for Entering the SE Asian Conflict




Bazooka



War Remnants Museum


A purely local and Vietnamese perspective on the war.



No Photography Allowed


Hence the lack of photos from the museum.  Only managed to sneak a few.



Beautiful Gardens


Incredible Reach of the Mongolian Empire


And impressively repelled repeatedly by the Vietnamese.


Entrance to the Museum of Vietnamese History




Iced Vietnamese Coffee


Besides the botanical gardens and zoo while we wait for the Museum of Vietnamese History to open for the afternoon.



Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica



A Taste of Home




Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Fried Octopus for Dinner


Thousands of Motorcycles


Amazingly we are staying a mere two blocks from this very intersection where my parents filmed themselves riding on the back of a bike here last spring.  Small world.