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written by Todd DePastino Probabaly the Government of French Indochina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In part one of this essay, we discussed how Vietnam’s...
written by Todd DePastino Before the arrival of the French, Vietnam was a feudal land made up of villages of subsistence farmers. The French began...
written by Todd DePastino Last month, in preparation for our 2023 VBC Vietnam Trip, we launched a series of talks and conversations around the history...
written by Todd DePastino One click from our Le Jardin Hotel & Spa in Hanoi, where our travel group arrived last week, is a neglected...
By Todd DePastino One of the pleasures of running the Veterans Breakfast Club is discovering other people like us who have spent years building communities...
written by Todd DePastino On February 17, 1979, China launched over 200,000 soldiers across its southern border in a “punitive war” against Vietnam that would...
written by Todd DePastino In November and December, 21 of us—including five veterans who had served in-country during the war—traveled to Vietnam, from Hanoi and...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower during the President’s News Conference, April 7, 1954 On April 7, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower answered a press conference reporter’s question...
