There is No Permanence, Save for Change - Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam
October 23rd 2013 The same winding stretch of land - where only decades ago, children from two ends of the world were torn violently from their families in an agonizing spiral of violence and terror, the pawns of politicians and strategists hunched over their maps, righteous by their doctrines - is traversed today by an international amalgamation of teens and twenty-somethings in colorful 'Good Morning Vietnam&
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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 
