A new respect for the vietcong

Prior to this trip, I tried to educate myself on the goings-on of the war in vietnam. Shamefully, at first I didn't get much further than the wikiworldorder article but as time passed, i managed to pick up a few other snippets here and there from various USMC veteran blogs and other websites

Funny thing, war, the stories always seem to be told by the winners. This case was a bit different because the americans have labeled it a stalemate, but I'm pretty sure I only saw red flags on the poles when I was there.

Anyhow, the military history bit started when we took a generic guided tour to the cu chi tunnels, where we were at first fed the run-of-the-mill nva tapes with many references to 'those american devils' (lol), then things started to get a bit more serious