Closing up the Trip. It's now been about 2 months since returning from Asia to Colorado. I realize I didn't really conclude the trip so I will try now. After 7 relaxing days in Hoi An, Vietnam we flew to Ho chi Min City (formerly Saigon). Today it is a bustling city with worse traffic than I have previously described. Full of micro Entrepremeurs, tour buses, backpackers, McDonalds etc. Interesting visit to the former Presidential Palace and the War Rememberance museum. The War Rememberance Museum includes a captured US helicopter, small piper like US plane and a couple US tanks. Although there is occasional talk of American Imperialists it is not dominated by that attitude. More an attitude of "we won...lets not brag too much except to thank the present government." Included was a section of the effect of the war on children, journalists who died during the war and non US press accounts of demonstrations against the "American" war. ...
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