WARS ARE RESULT OF INSANITY & UTTER CONTEMPT OF HUMAN LIFE.

Thanks for refreshing my memory of the Tunnels… Although I haven’t visited Vietnam, I have read much about them. I remember reading in a book the “Tunnel Rats” that these tunnels were the homes for the Guerillas who fought the American Army and that these tunnel networks span a couple of thousand kilometers… Kind of a city underground.

The Tunnel Rats were a bunch of ill tempered misfit soldiers thrown together with a core job of clearing these tunnels and to try and capture important officials holed up in there and any intelligence documents they could get their hands on.

Also there are live Boobytraps in the tunnels… White Phosphorus and grenades are used in creating these boobytraps… The white phosphorus, also known as “Wily Peter” burns on being exposed to air and if it comes in contact with the skin, it can burn through, till the bone… and we all know what a devastation a single grenade can do in small cramped locations…

Although not a big fan of the american tactics, I admire the guts the soldiers showed in fighting a war which was not their own… that they lost was a given… no one can win if the locals dont favor you… Iraq seems to be another Vietnam in the making for America.

Very beautiful account. It gave a good insight about Vietnam. Vietnam always attracts me and though I have not visited this gusty country I can make out Vietnam through pictures itself.
Though I don’t suppot communism that much, but I don’t like arm twisting techniques of US too. Anyway Vietnamese will always be remembered as the one who defeated the supreme power.
Its also good to know that Indians are welcome there. It increases your interest in possibility of exploring the country.

I specially like the photograph of the flower market and the Tunnel.

This is only a fraction of my experience, but a longer description will be sort of rambling account
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Can we expect more of your experiences about this country and also any nearby place you visited ? You can give us good insight about them.

I was surprised to see so less comment on the post as its so beautifully written that I was expecting many.

In the end, I think this post has acted like appetizer and it has increased the hunger to know more about the country from someone who seems to be knowing about them in detail.

Eagerly looking for more …