Nick Fits in the Tunnel

You Don't Say Viet Congs

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January 17th 2011
Wednesday 1-5 Today we headed into the Cu Chi Tunnels. Cu Chi is a small agricultural city outside of Saigon. During the Vietnam War, the gorilla fighters from Cu Chi set up an extensive underground tunnel system to evade and attack the U.S. military base, which was only a few hundred meters away from the tunnels. It’s easy to see why the U.S. had no hope of infiltrating the tunnels and defea ... read more

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more