Interesting, I had no idea it existed.

I'm a Vietnam Vet, I traveled back on the 50th Aniversary of my deployment to Pleiku. Not much to see there, not a tourist destination, but it was closure for me, I am the survivor of the three of us that went together. We all came home, but two had early deaths, likely due to Agent Orange exposure... and I am a cancer survivor, a cancer likely caused by Agent Orange exposure.

My next trip was by train, Saigon (HCMC) to Nha Trang, thence Da Nang, across the former DMZ to Dong Hoi, and finally Hanoi.

I have to say I never expected that some day I would be walking the streets of Hanoi. But I never expected to walk the streets of Beijing and travel all over China, either.

I fell in love with Dong Hoi, and returned for 2 months. I will go back again in December for 3 months.

I know some veterans take issue with that, probably because the U.S. lost the war, but we had no business being there. I met and talked with Robert S. McNamara when we hosted the Washington Post Board of Directors in Detroit in the 1980's. He told me the U.S. was "very, very wrong" for what we did in Vietnam, that we should have withdrawn (and that, had he lived, it is what he believed JFK would have done).

I love the country and the Vietnamese people, and even though we bombed Dong Hoi flat, the people consider the American Agression history and we are very welcome there now.

And, yes I agree, it was American Agression, we had no buiness being in Vietnam, a war we had no hope of winning. Why, because the Vietnamese believed in what they were doing, they are true patriots.

We had our chance with Ho Chi Minh for an alliance but chose to not support him because of our alliance with the French, so, like Castro, he looked to the communist for support. Yes, in both countries, the U.S. screwed up.