Yep; Our troops were there so long that the South was infected with the "Capitalism Virus", the counterinsurgency that keeps on counter-ing!
A couple of years back “The Nightly Business Report” on PBS had a
series on Asian basin countries that were emerging into real-world business.
After watching the one on Vietnam, I could just see some of the old
NVA generals sitting around in Hanoi saying to each other
“Remind me now, we did win the war. Didn’t we?!”
IIRC, a year or so ago Bill Gates made an appearance in Vietnam...
and some big wheels in their “government” dropped everything to
get their photo-op with Gates. There was one picture of Vietnamese student
with Gates...they looked like they’d met some sort of diety.
Myself, I just wish I had an exclusive franchise to sell single malt
Scotch whiskey in all those country clubs opening up in Vietnam!