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Old 09-23-2017, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by thelegges View Post
Since I am in Nam Vet I rarely watch anything on TV read an article or a book on Vietnam. I also have no desire to revisit Vietnam as a vacation.

But my life has changed greatly since my only three grandchildren are Vietnamese. Life can be funny that way
I will be there in ten days at a condo on China Beach, near Danang. The people are amazingly friendly and the international hotels are being built on dozens of
sites. People are very friendly and welcoming.

Still a Communist country(whatever that means today) but with ambitious capitalistic tendencies. As an aside , if you check much of the clothing that you think is Chinese, you just might find that it was made in Vietnam. Apparently cutting into the Chinese dominance of finished textiles to a significant degree.
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