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Left to right: Fishermen working their nets
in Mui Ne; Father and son on their scooter:
Display of weapons of war at the War Rem-
nants Museum.

a somewhat sanguine approach to the war, Meanwhile, all I could think about was a these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
suggesting that neither the U.S. combatants tidbit from history. Ho Chi Minh was a Happiness.”
nor the Vietnamese resistance had much notorious admirer of America’s revolution- It has taken centuries of war and occupa-
choice in the matter. He told me about his ary history and practically begged the U.S. tion, first by the Chinese, then by the
father, a “collaborator” who had provided to merely recognize his revolution, unsuc- French and the United States, and years
some kind of conveyance service to Ameri- cessfully of course. When he drew up the of recriminations, re-education camps,
cans in Saigon, but then fled in fear when constitution for the new country he would and purges, but my feeling is that Vietnam
the Army of North Vietnam triumphantly ultimately lead, this was the preamble: is finally approaching the ideal.embedded
entered the city in 1975. He died of cancer “We hold these truths to be self-evident, in those famous words.
after 9 years of exile in the Soviet Union, that all men are created equal, that they
never seeing his family again. are endowed, by their Creator, with
certain unalienable Rights, that among

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