HCMC

In Ho Chi Minh City we met up with Corinna, she will join our travels for the next months. Ho Chi Minh is not really interesting,  big, noisy and a lot of pollution.  We enjoyed our Vietnam war history lesson in the museum and on the tunnel fields. Thousands of miles of tunnels situed underneath the Cu Chi district northwest of HCMC ( Saigon). Soldiers used these underground routes to transport communications and supplies, lay booby traps and for mount surprise attacks.

The war was over 18 years long until the fall of Saigon (HCMC) on 30 April 1975.

It was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. They fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region.

The divisive war ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 mio. people were killed in the conflict.

Despite that this war whiled over 18 years, for me personally was the agent orange attac a horrible fact. Agent Orange is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military and South Vietnam as a part of its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.
Tragically the use of this chemical involves nowadays and after the war deformations of babies.