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written by Todd DePastino Officially, it’s Ho Chi Minh City. But no one calls it that. For residents and most Americans, it remains Saigon, the...
written by Todd DePastino A quick poll of our travelers at the end of Day 7 was almost unanimous: they wanted more time in Danang....
written by Todd DePastino Back in the 1980s, Mt. Lebanon High School, south of Pittsburgh, had a great mound of landfill in the rear we...
written by Todd DePastino The Demilitarized Zone–the DMZ–stretched across the narrow waist of Vietnam, 30 km north of Hue City, cutting the country into two...
written by Todd DePastino Our attention turned once again to the American War when we toured Hue on Day 4 of our trip. Hue burst...
written by Todd DePastino Our morning excursion in Halong Bay was a welcome respite from the bustle and war stories of Hanoi. Halong Bay is...
written by Todd DePastino One immediate difference I noticed in this year’s trip to Vietnam is the absence of Chinese tourists. In 2018 and 2020,...
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...
written by Todd DePastino Welcome sign at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi Vietnam is about as far as you can travel from the United...
written by Chuck Myers Back in 2021, we welcomed Navy veteran Chuck Myers to our VBC Greatest Generation Live to give a virtual tour of...
written by Mary Klepper In Rogersville, Tennessee, is the Persia General Store, the kind of place where “if they don’t have it, you don’t need...
written by Carole Wagener A veteran’s letters are a rich source that can be mined for gold when writing their stories. Using these first-person accounts,...
