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Article: Vietnam after 25 years.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- April 28, 2000
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Vietnam was always complex, always personal. During the war I found it easier to live in Vietnam, close to the victims of our war, than in my homeland, where too often people seemed not to care.
Life and hope, but war scars linger on
Nearly three decades had passed since our last visit to my wife's family in the Mekong Delta when we arrived at Tan Son Nhut airport on a morning flight from Bangkok, Thailand. Rows of old hangers that once protected U.S. planes from 122-mm rockets served as ghostly reminders of another time.
Once the busiest airport in the world, Tan Son Nhut was almost sleepy when we stepped off the plane in January into the heat ...