• Mekong Ho!

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    The guide from the Sinh Balo tour operator is waiting at the reception desk and I am still not ready. I want to linger over breakfast and coffee. But this trip is a short one so there’s no time for relaxing, there are places to go, people to see. Over breakfast I had looked down

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  • McNamara and the war museum

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    We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam, acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why. I truly believe

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  • Ghosts: Number 3

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    There was a small tear in the leather of the seat. A gash from some cut that had been made deliberately, meticulously. Yellow foam was oozing out of it. “Like a wound” “What?” “That tear there. On the seat. It’s like a wound.” Amy gave the tear a cursory glance. It didn’t seem to bother

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