Tung Linh said she “basically knows nothing” about the brutal, protracted conflict that pitted the US-backed South against the Communist-run North of her nation on a sweltering afternoon in Vietnam.
The 20-year-old college student explains, “My grandparents fought in the war, and because of that, we can look at the sky and see an airplane and we don’t feel scared, like they did.”
The Vietnamese flag, a little yellow star on a crimson rectangle, was stuck to her right cheek. She lived in Ho Chi Minh City, which was preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Communist victory at the conclusion of the war.
The Vietnam of now differs greatly from the one from which American forces retreated in defeat.
