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Khe Sanh: Light as a Feather

February 24th 2016
I don't know why I bought them. The two guys with baskets of metal objects on the site of Khe Sanh hounded me from the moment I set foot in the area. They had coins and medals and bullet casings and fragments of war. One had a 1976 penny. Obviously, he had picked it up from somewhere else, not here, on the flat open area where Americans and Vietnamese fought a prolonged battle in 1968. Khe Sanh ... read more
Asia » Vietnam » Northwest

Vietnamese Flag 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
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