Comments on: This ain’t your father’s Vietnam http://romansturgis.com/2008/10/26/this-aint-your-fathers-nam/ Fiction podcasts and my blog. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:25:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Craig http://romansturgis.com/2008/10/26/this-aint-your-fathers-nam/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Craig Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:26:42 +0000 http://romansturgis.com/?p=153#comment-45 Bravo! Delighted by your anecdotes. I regret never having written about my time in the region. I have found that Vietnam ages well with time, though. I'm nostalgic for the pate and breads and the three hour-long $13 hair-cut, shave, and full body (nothing naughty) massage. Still, departing Vietnam for Cambodia was a welcome relief - if short-lived. A common surprise of the many travelers I met in SE Asia was just how aggressive transactors the Vietnamese could be. I found the Cubans, at times, to share similar traits. Communism breeds the best capitalists! I know it takes time for experiences like yours to sink in but I'd be grateful if you'd indulge us, eventually, with how your time in Vietnam influenced your perspective on the conflict of the 60s - both on the virtues of the war and its attendant role in American domestic life. Bravo! Delighted by your anecdotes. I regret never having written about my time in the region. I have found that Vietnam ages well with time, though. I’m nostalgic for the pate and breads and the three hour-long $13 hair-cut, shave, and full body (nothing naughty) massage. Still, departing Vietnam for Cambodia was a welcome relief – if short-lived. A common surprise of the many travelers I met in SE Asia was just how aggressive transactors the Vietnamese could be. I found the Cubans, at times, to share similar traits. Communism breeds the best capitalists! I know it takes time for experiences like yours to sink in but I’d be grateful if you’d indulge us, eventually, with how your time in Vietnam influenced your perspective on the conflict of the 60s – both on the virtues of the war and its attendant role in American domestic life.

]]> By: Jessica http://romansturgis.com/2008/10/26/this-aint-your-fathers-nam/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Jessica Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:42:57 +0000 http://romansturgis.com/?p=153#comment-44 No one says it like Graham Greene. Interesting to read about your trip! No one says it like Graham Greene.

Interesting to read about your trip!

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