sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

Vietnam is very hot this time of year with temperatures in the low to mid 90s. Hardly any clouds as it is the dry season. Thats what confuses me because many Vietnamese are wearing long sleeves and or jackets or sweatshirts. Yikes

Sarge69

There wasn't enough time to take a photo of every display so I'll just post the ones I liked


At the end of Le Loi was the cultural Opera House


A photo of the 'Continental Hotel' Note: the front used to be open with a huge porch for drinking and dining.


Many GIs used this sign as their starting point for a wild night


The renovated Caravel Hotel. In that square used to be a statue of a Vietnamese Solider in a fighting pose. It was destroyed quickly with the end of the war


A small example of the French influence on buildings from ' French Indo China' times

angler Loc: StHelens England

Good set.

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

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cspear42 Loc: New Mexico

Keep them coming, your days are getting short. When do you come home to the land of the big PX?

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

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sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

Start my return on the 19th and get home the 21st.

Sarge69

Morrisdh Loc: Pisgah Alabama

I think each series is better and better. Thanks for sharing
keep them coming and be safe. :thumbup: mdh

drkeene Loc: Florida Gulf Coast

When I shipped out in '68, I left Vietnam with a fine FPS-100 traffic control radar at Ton Son Nhut Airbase (presumably Ho Chi Minh International Airport now). Check it out as you depart. A beautiful white dome standing perhaps 90 feet high on the city side (with some bullet holes from the Tet Attack). You can identify it by a huge sign in front stating "505th Tactical Control Group". Or perhaps not...

Your travels bring back memories - not all of them bad. I'm very happy that the long war is only a memory now for the Vietnamese. Do many of them seem to hold bitter resentment of the U.S.?

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

drkeene - absolutely no resentment at all. The only place you might consider that would be in the War Museum. Some stuff in there I would not agree with but outside of that isolated area, you'd never know we spent so many years there. But also consider that was 40+ years ago and the younger population either doesn't care or are not educated about it. As I said in a previous post, you get smiles and V signs from anyone you make friendly eye contact with all the time. The economy is booming and tourism is out of sight with Europeans, Americans, Indians, Koreans, Chinese, lots of Australians, you name it, they are here walking around.

Sarge69

Milvtx Loc: Midland,Texas

Thanks for posting those, Sarge! I really loved seeing the pictures, especially the people at the bottom of the Le Loi cultural opera house. That building was really pretty too.

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

I stood there almost 15 min to get a shot with almost no traffic. LOL

Sarge69