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I The War Nobody Won
The town of Langson, near the border of China, was partly destroyed when Chinese
forces invaded Vietnam in early 1979. The Vietnamese preserve the ruins as testimony
to what they call Chinese aggression.
"The Vietnam memorial ill Washil1gtoll, D.C., a wall ofpolished black granite bearing
the names of 57,939 Americmls who died or are missillg ill actioll ill the Vietnam war,
was dedicated ill November 1982.
Wounded veterans watch a
soccer match in Vietnam
after the war. Though
Vietnamese authorities
never published the
figures, estimates are that
the Communists lost some
600,000 men in the
struggle.
Thousands of Vietnam
veterans and their families
appeared in Washington in
November 1982 to
commemorate the
American soldiers who
died in the war. They
participated irl a parade
arId other ceremorlies,
ineluding a vigil at the
Narional arhedral.
\
oAnefemw'IoI'f the more than
who fleI dIoVn ' Vl'etnamese
I etnam aifte
war. These "b r the
langu'ish aboardoaat sphel'oppl,e"
Mautahn/Ia' B~y, awaiting In
, ~Ylzatlon by the
PlahnIdLIpTpihne government to
, ousands of
rejUgees are still con /;
to camps throughout':J,ned
S outheast A Sl'a.
Aor VTe' xan with the family
h'Jas aldetonpatmdese re,Jt;..,gees she
h' e , Nearl
~e,aif-million V.letnaymea
Immigrated to the
States fioII oWI.ng VU' nited
conquest b h letnam's
Co y t e
mmunlsts ill A '/
1975. pYl
Peasants in Tayninh, a province in the southern part of Vietnam, work in an area
defoliated by American herbicides during the war. Many of the 250,000 acres offorest
in the area, ruined in 1966 alone, remained barren for years after the war.
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The mausolelwl in Hanoi cOlltaillillg the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh is one oj
the few Ilew stYl/eture bllilt ill the city. The mal/solel/m, desigrled by Soviet architects,
IVa modeled 011 Lellil/' tomb ill Mo (OIV. Ho died ill eptelllber 1969.
A "re-education" camp in southern Vietnam for former Saigon government officers
arrested after the war. More than 50,000 political prisoners remain in such camps,
many of them suffering from mistreatment and hunger.
Peasants at a "cooperative," the government euphemism for a collective farm, in
southern Vietnam. The Communist authorities were compelled to reverse the
collectivizatioll programs ill the years after the war, when peasant opposition reduced
food prod•.wiol1.
Young Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City continue to defy "socialist transformation."
nre T-shirt is either a remnant from the American period or a new copy, and the
motor scooters are fueled by black-market gasoline.
'rile mall/urs alld mores of the old regime corltilll/e ill Ho Chi Minh City, formerly
Saigol/, despite the omllll4llist takeover. 71~lo yor"'g prostitutes ply their trade near
YOlltils peddlil/,(I black-markef Allleri all cr;l/arette .
Ne of tile saddest legacies
of tile war are Amerasian
cllildren like this girl, the
offsprirlg of a GI and a
Vietnamese woman.
Ostracized by the
ommunists, they survive
by beggillg or hawking
black-market wares.
The skulls piled up in
Phnompenh, capital of
Cambodia, are those of
victims ofgenocide carried
out by the Khmer Rouge,
the Cambodian Commu-
nist movement. As many
as two million people may
have beer! slaughtered in
the purge.
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