Today I visited the war remnants museum in Ho Chi Minh City. It was a profoundly moving experience comparable to my feelings at Hiroshima.
At Hue, which had been one of the battle sites, I asked my young guide what her family felt about the war. She said 'my grandmother said it was very difficult, they did not have anything to eat' but she immediately added, 'we do not look backward, we look to the future'. I heard this repeated several times in Hanoi and Hue by young people.
The photographs at the war remnants museum really bring home what they went through and how they have practised looking to the future.
The museum was full of school and university students
Students from Saigon University resting below the (propaganda) posters :) they looked so young I thought they were school kids. One of them who could communicate in halting English told me they were from Saigon university.
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