Category Archives: Saigon

Vietnam War haunts are now for dong millionaires

Posted on April 17, 2019 by

Hotel Continental “The bars of Saigon were home for two generations of war correspondents, the reporters who covered the French and American conflicts. They offered an essential interlude between forays out of the city to the battlefields of Vietnam. Some … Continue reading →

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Vietnam, Through the Eyes of Artists – Holland Cotter

Posted on April 8, 2019 by

A detail of Leon Golub’s “Vietnam II” (1973), at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “Whatever happened to ‘protest art’ — issue-specific, say-no-to-power-and-say-it-loud art? Here we are, embroiled, as a nation, in what many in the art world regard as a … Continue reading →

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The Largest Military Construction Project in History

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

American contractors building a bridge across the Saigon River during the Vietnam War. “By late 1967, there were 485,600 American troops in South Vietnam; over the course of the war, nearly 2.6 million American service members would serve in country. … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of war: My journalist father’s Vietnam odyssey, revisited

Posted on February 1, 2019 by

Duc Co Special Forces camp, 1965: Wounded soldiers crouch in the dust as a U.S. helicopter takes off from a clearing. This was one of many images taken by photojournalist Tim Page that chronicled the Vietnam conflict. “Chevy Chase, Md., … Continue reading →

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U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show

Posted on October 6, 2018 by

President Johnson with Gen. William Westmoreland in South Vietnam in 1967. “In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam … Continue reading →

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On the Trail of Vietnam War Heritage in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Posted on October 4, 2018 by

“30th April 2015 saw the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, a critical moment in history that ultimately led to the end of the War in Vietnam (or the American War as it is known in Vietnam). Giving any … Continue reading →

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Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of Vietnam

Posted on July 24, 2018 by

“Not long after dawn, Robert S. McNamara set out on a rapid walk through the half-light of Hanoi. A steamy drizzle soon soaked his dark blue jogging shorts and shirt. He stared intently ahead, barely glancing at the Vietnamese along … Continue reading →

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