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Your VCR as language tutor: A Vietnamese case stud

Quick: Answer these questions honestly and from your gut. 1. How badly do you want to learn an As...

Vietnam Ben Bangs

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Summed up in a Mini-Bar

Singapore vs. Ho Chi Minh City Kettle Chips vs. Pot-a-chi Chili Flavor Chips Perrier vs. Danhthan...

Vietnam Tara Russell

Frances Fitzgerald's Fire in the Lake

Apocalypse Now and Again

Review of Frances Fitzgerald's "Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam", B...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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War is Hell. Still.

A review of Denise Chong's The Girl in the Picture, about Vietnam war casualty Kim Phuc.

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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Motorbike races, Vietnam style

Should you be walking around the streets of Vietnam's major cities late at night, don't be surpri...

Vietnam AFP/Le Thang Long

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The Water Buffalo!

Like the Vietnamese hat worn in the countryside the Water Buffalo is a symbol of Vietnam. He plow...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Postcards and Stamps!

Ho Chi Minh City. My first day back in Vietnam after more than thirty years. A bus takes us to ou...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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During my time in Vietnam, 1967, I saw the tiger. He could do little but try to survive. Now the ...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Times Square,Saigon

Dec. 31, 2001, Saigon. We arrive late in the day on the first day of our Vietnam tour. Our hotel ...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Looking out the window.

May, 2000. I am flying into Saigon from Thailand. Looking out the window as we land I see the old...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Speaking from the heart.

During my first trip back to Vietnam I was talking to a Vietnamese man. He told me he was speakin...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Vietnam-Going home!

In 1967-68 I was a Marine in the war in Vietnam. It was a year that would change my life for good...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Packing Pack light leaving enough room for the stuff you buy. Even better buy another bag there. ...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Vietnam; A Third Tour

My first tour was as a Marine in 1967. A tour that brought only sorrow and pain. My second tour w...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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