Vietnam...meet Frick
Power lines
Beast
An ad for a cruse on "the Junk"
Uncle Steve
I like to call these guys the imperial guard. They are nothing but thugs in uniform- they can steal your money, your car, your drivers lisence, put you in jail, or do anything they want if you don't pay up.
A memorial along the 17th parallel (the border between the old north and south Vietnam) commemorating "The People's Victory". This was some of the bloodiest ground during the war, and was disturbing to say the least. American and Vietnamese guys my age died here 35 years ago.
These are piles of shot down American Bombers that were collected and made into a giant pillar of destruction. Makes me want to vomit.
For the record, most of these planes were clearly fake- just look at the paint jobs- navy and air force insignia on the same plane. Pretty sure we moved on to jets by the 70's too. But the war and the people these planes represented wasn't fake at all.
I cant imagine what's going through Don's head here- He knew what Vietnam meant & it must have been so much more intense for him
This is Hanoi Hilton- a military prison during the war. It was originally built by the French in the 1700s where the worst of Vietnamese prisoners were kept starved & tortured. American pilots shot down near Hanoi were taken here during the war and given the same treatment until they were returned at the wars end. This place was numbing.
Yea right.
Broken glass bottles on the top of the walls to prevent anyone from climbing over
The pilots were shackled to the floor for days at a time. Temperatures could easily reach 100 in these cells, and these guys couldn't move at all. They did slant the floors back though, so you didn't have to sit in your urine all day.
Death Row
Propaganda bull. They actually believe this.
The Vietnamese Government used photos from US papers covering anti war protests and twisted it to say that these Americans were protesting for Vietnamese Freedom- that even America was on the side of the People. They won the war though, and therefore reserve the right to rewrite history any way they see fit. I look at this though, and wonder- have we learned
anything from Vietnam?
This is a shot looking up from the outer prison wall. Behind the Hanoi Hilton, the place where US soldiers felt some of the most brutal pain of the war, sits the 50 story Best Western of Hanoi. Tell me now- despite the efforts of the People's Government- Who really won?
Ho Chi Minnh's grave
Me & Ho Chi Minnh.
Lennin
Governmet 'Housing'
This is a better than average bedroom.
This is the kitchen of a well off family of 6.
Rice farming has to be the hardest job on earth, and most of Vietnam does this for a living. You are bent over, and up to you knees in mud all day. Leeches all around. You get paid nearly nothing. Its 105 degrees and more humid than anything you can ever imagine. You wear the same old pair of disgusting old wet clothes every day because nothing ever dries in this humidity. If you live in the country, chances are that you will work every day of your life in this patty. It truely makes me thankful for the blessing God's given me.
Boom.
Me & Ballgame on the bike
Steve drove his bike strait into a parked bus. He didn't even fall over, even though the bike slid under and he hit his head right on the rear panel. Dude is Diesel. Steve stood right up and was like, "Who the heck parks a Bus there!". He later almost picked a fight with a little old Vietnamese lady afterward because she kept laughing at him. It was freaky at first but hilarious.
Kyle is funny
What the...?
All you Killa
perfect blackmail picture
More than anything else from this trip, I'll remember the children in Vietnam. These kids are so happy with the little they've been given. Vietnam, despite all its troubles, still has a lot of hope. Jesus loves this country so much, and I cant wait to see the day when every tongue on Earth- from America to Vietnam, proclaims Jesus as Lord of all.
"After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! " -Luke 10: 1-3
