![]() ![]() 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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