Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) City Vietnam In the mid-1960’s as I watched the young men in my high school class being sent to Vietnam, many of them never to return, and as I watched as we as a nation, agonized over the war, were split by the war, and prayed it would be over soon…never, ever did I think that I would one day be in Saigon, Vietnam. Our ship docked at Phu My and we took a 2 hour bus ride, along the Saigon River to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Saigon is still referred to as Saigon by the locals. They revere Ho Chi Minh (Uncle Ho) but say the name was a political move so the natives still call it by its old name, Saigon. Lots and lots of rice fields flooded
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