When I went there from Hong Kong in 1995, a couple months after Vietnam opened to US passport holders, the museum was called "The American War Atrocities Museum" Shortly after, the name was changed to make it more tourist friendly. From travel vlog videos I have seen since, Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) no longer resembles what it looked like in 1995. From 1972 to 1995 time had stood still. In 1995 Vietnam didn't even have a functional international airline - they rented unmarked aircraft from Cathay Pacific. A bunch of guys went there for a long weekend for a stag party out of Hong Kong. They got pretty legless on the flight over and had Groucho Marx glasses/nose/mustaches on forgetting to take them off. The immigration guys, probably under orders to not harass money loaded tourists, could not bring themselves to tell them to take the disguises off as they went thru Immigration. Back then the going rate to rent a pedi-cab for the full day was $5. Most were former SVA that were under job restriction permits. Outside the hotel at night, the drinking and drunk tourists would have pedi-cab races.The pedi-cab guys could earn in a one minute race what they would otherwise earn in an entire day. I had to watch your video on YouTube as it would not launch here, but I leave the comment here. The museum used to have a large collection of every type of bomb and shell dropped during the war just outside the entrance to the indoor part. It included an unexploded "daisy cutter" bomb (BLU-82B), I didn't see that in your video. Thanks for the video.
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