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David Hughes is accosted by entrepreneurial street vendors, including Binh on the right who was most helpful the first morning as I set out to find school supplies to bring as gifts to the mute children we visited.
At the school, children with red scarves are mute.
At the temple of Literature main entrance, Brady, Mr. Beauchamp, Nancy and Ida strike a pose.
Mango, our illustrious guide, hopes to one day be Prime Minister of Viet Nam and bring about many changes there.
The overall plan of the temple of Literature. The island at the bottom of the image was destroyed during the war.
Nancy Hart, Julie and Glen Dolmagne, David and Brady Hart. Julie and Glen live about three houses down the street from Nancy in Chestertown, MD. They never met before this trip.
At a saggar firing porcelain plant outside Hanoi. Notice the cylindrical saggars stacked on the second and third floors of this kiln building. Note also the hand formed cakes of charcoal drying on the columns.
Brady examines a few of the rejected amphoras that utilized a nice double dipped copper glaze.
More modern gas kilns are in use as well.
This government owned plant has a showroom and welcomes foreign Import/Export investors.
On the right, our Viet made Ford Van, on the left, a worker utilizes a seatless bicycle to haul an inordinate amount of cardboard. The Ho Chi Minh trail utilized bicycle cargo units like this one to resupply troops.
The mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh, where you can see his body lying in state a few months a year. He had wanted to be cremated.
Ho Chi Minh's cabinet table, under his stilt house.
Ho Chi Minh's fishing pond.
Museum of Reunification.
Viet troops practice aiming at things.
Evidently these AK's aren't susceptible to problems after dry firing, as these soldiers were taking aim at far off tourists and pulling the trigger of their unloaded weapons.
Brady and his mother look forward to air conditioning inside the museum of reunification.
While it is a few degrees cooler inside, a 79 step walk up to this statue is the welcome to the museum. One step for each year of "Uncle Ho's" life. Nancy was suddenly wishing he had died young. This bronze and the whole museum were some of the last gifts given to Vietnam by the Soviet Union before it's dissollution.
This statue commemorates the suicide anti-tank troops who ran up to tanks with a shaped charge on the end of a stick and jabbed it into the side of tanks during the war.
The entrance to the Ha Noi Hilton Prison. By the way, Hilton Corp does now have a hotel in Ha Noi. It is called the Opera House Hilton of Ha Noi.
Brady tried on this form of torture. The floor is slanted down so that if a prisoner reclined, all the blood would rush to his head, causing throbbing pain. Ever try sleeping sitting up?
One of two french guillotines left at the prison.
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