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The pain of Saigon

The pain of Saigon I’d like to write something great but after visiting Saigon, words can’t even describe how HARD this was for me. I started to take pictures and after a few, I just COULDN’T as it was absolutely gut wrenching.  The ones I do have are just too terrible to post. Over the past couple of days, we visited the Vietnam War Remnants museum and the Cu chi tunnels where the Vietcong operated. Unfortunately, being a communist country, only one side of this war is allowed to be spoken of publicly without significant retribution and it’s heartbreaking.  It was sickening to see senior US government officials at the sites making our soldiers do things unimaginable-things they DON’T tell us in the history books. It was sickening to actually SEE the types of traps/torture devices that were being used on our soldiers.  And do you know how communism gained ground in the first place? The government kept promising the people more and more until one day they called in the “fa...