Ho Chi Minh City It is hardly possible to visit Vietnam while ignoring the hard times the country has had in the near past. The war we, young leftwing students, protested against in the sixties and seventies, is still in our mind. And likewise it is not forgotten by the Vietnamese themselves. But times are changing. Europeans, Australians, Asians and Americans are passing the remnants of the war in long queus, while guided by Vietnamese. The icons of war have become tourist stopovers. Like the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon), where the first Viet Cong tanks rolled in. Or The War Remnants Museum, where we see the impact of the infamous Agent Orange. At the time we could not believe the Americans could use this poison, which not only defoliated big
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