Vietnam–a deadly place for the American military man or woman to be once upon a time, but at that same time, it was a land of many faces.  Complex.  A
n enigma as old as time itself.  Beauty, squalor, swamps, cities, mountains, and farms.  Fishing, pineapples, and rice.  Bicycles, water buffaloes, and oil smoke belching mopeds.  Vietnam had it all.  One had merely to open their eyes to drink in the Jewel of the Orient.  Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Republic of South Vietnam……

Sai Gon, traditional capitol of Vietnam.  The Paris of the East.  Looking North rather towards the city Di An, pronounced “zee on”.  Bien Hoa and Long Binh would be off to the right

The “John Deere tractors” of Vietnam.

Buddha in the Pineapple South of Saigon.

Downtown Nha Be.  Looking Southeast towards the naval base.

Kids playing in heavy traffic……

Rice paddies along a large canal.

Catholic Church in the country.

A fisherman casts his net.

Going to school.

From sky scrapers to the proverbial grass shacks.  They’ve got bottle gas though!

Shopping at the mall.

A colorful, large city scene.

Mow yer lawn, Mister?

Flat lands to mountains.  Vietnam has it all.

And at the end of a long day, a beautiful Vietnam sunset.