As America Obsesses Over Kerry Service Record, Vietnam Moves on After War [View All]

[BaysideLiberal]

IN THE MEKONG RIVER, Vietnam (AP) - Along the Mekong River, where John Kerry and America's "brown water navy" once hunted Viet Cong, people get puzzled when told he's a presidential candidate whose opposition to the Vietnam War is an issue more than 30 years later.

"I think it's a mistake to go back and dig up all the stuff about the Vietnam War," said Do Thanh Tam, 74, who runs a pharmacy in Can Tho where U.S. soldiers once bought cold tablets and Band-Aids. "The Vietnamese people want to put behind the past and look forward to the future in harmony."

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"I would vote for Kerry," said Nguyen The Cung, 68, a fisherman threading hooks aboard his boat near Kerry's former military base in coastal Vung Tau. "He knew about Vietnam and he knew about the cruelty and brutality of war."

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comment : very intersting article, we Americans could learn something from it.