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Being raised USA centric and mostly hearing the dogma, I always appreciate hearing stories from the other side. The difference of opinion, even when I don't agr

• Taniwha 5y ago
  Visited Hanoi with our (just) adult kids a few years ago, we chose to mostly avoid American War (that's what they call it) era stuff - but one day we split up and went to an excellent art museum, the kids ended up at a museum to the evils of the French administration where people had been tortured and executed .... turned out it was what my generation knew as the "Hanoi Hilton" (we had been deliberately avoiding it), apparently it had little if any mention of the US prisoners there (the kids didn't notice anything) you sort of can't decry that place without also remembering that its previous incarnation was what Ho Chi Min was fighting against (and he was very much a freedom fighter before he became a communist)
  • refurb 5y ago
    The Hanoi Hilton has been "sanitized" significantly over the years, as have the war museums. The War Remnants Museum in HCMC is a must see for people interested in the history. But it went through several versions as Vietnam sought to restore relations with the US. It was originally called "Exhibition House for US and Puppet Crimes" in 1975, then changed to "Exhibition House for Crimes of War and Aggression" in 1990, then prior to US/Vietnam relationships normalization it was renamed as it is today. Plenty of the exhibits have had their language modified as well.