Posted on 12/26/2019 10:47:33 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
After his military career, Rockhold worked as a defense contractor, operating mostly in Africa. He first returned to Vietnam in 1992 to work on a program to help economic refugees. He settled in Vietnam in 1995, the same year the United States and Vietnam normalized relations. He married a Vietnamese woman in 2009.
In fact, he liked it so much that he persuaded his mother to move to Vietnam from Santa Maria, Calif., also in 2009.
She came for the wedding, and decided to stay, he said with a laugh. She lived in Vietnam until her death in 2015 at 94.
Vietnam has relaxed visa rules to lure American retirees like Rockhold, along with their savings.
Remarkably, he said, some of his friends are Americans who never served in Vietnam. The cost of living is so low, he said. Its a communist country, but if I blindfolded you and put you in downtown Saigon, you wouldnt know it.
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Waiting for a ride to my unit from Quang Tri a mama-san comes by selling Coke.
I said (IIRC) toi cam ooh, or something similar.
I NO THIRST(water)
She squealed and laughed with delight!
Then said you have Vietnamese wife!!!!
Soon there were three of them and they would not believe that I was not married?
After two years in country you learn a useful few lines.
Good point...it’s actually the opposite.
Ping
depends on whether you mind eating dog or cat..
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