![]() I don’t usually reach for historical fiction, but when a good friend recommended it, I picked up a copy-and I’m glad I did. Most recently, I picked up The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. In the years since that trip, I’ve tried to learn more about the Vietnamese experience. But the visit made me realize how little I had seen or read about the Vietnamese perspective on the war. You would have never known our countries were at war just decades earlier. Everyone I talked to was warm and welcoming. ![]() The answer was, to my relief, a resounding no. ![]() Many of the people I was scheduled to meet with lived through the war. So I was unsure when I found myself on a plane to Hanoi in 2006. Like many people of my generation, my view of the conflict was influenced by violent, American-centric movies like The Deer Hunter. ![]() I didn’t know what to expect the first time I visited Vietnam.Īlthough I’m a bit too young to have worried about my draft number, the Vietnam War cast a long shadow over my youth. ![]()
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