Leaving Vietnam with memories of 2013 and 1968

    Last in a series from the ruins and rivers of Southeast Asia
My first trip to Vietnam ended in mid-March 2013. I flew out of Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City a few weeks shy of 45 years since I was drafted into the US Army during the Vietnam War.

Among the Communist propaganda at the War Remnants Museum in Saigon is an outstanding collection from combat photographers, some of whom died on the job

As a soldier, I never made it out of the United States, spending nearly two years based in and around Washington, DC.

But I will never forget 1968.