[ThanhPhero]

I bet that picture of "Hanoi French" Kerry gets removed when W wins the election. The VCs are quietly renaming things like museums to tone down or eliminate the antiAmerican triumphalism and propaganda. They need a good relationship with America and those younger than 40 (90%? 95%?) rather like America and Americans anyway. I am sure that the picture still being up is making some of the VCs nervous now but they dare not take it down because Ffin Kerry might just win and they want to be on his good side if he does. I rather doubt the VCs want the Viet Nam War Vet (he fought in the War, you know)to win in November. They would probably prefer an American president who might just shield Viet Nam from the Chinese. They certainly want a president that will defend Taiwan because if we let Taiwan go down then the Vietnamese- all of them, even the ethnic Chinese in VN- fear that China will move on south to establish resorts for apparatchiks on the the World's 2nd most beautiful Beaches in Central Viet Nam.

[El Gato]

The VC's were pretty much, although not entirely, eliminate during Tet '68. By design of their North Vietnamese alliesmasters. The NV's didn't want the competition. Many former VC are now living Houston, Lincoln, etc, etc. They were well represented in the second wave of "boat people", along with many people who, or whose family members, had recently gotten out the "re-education" camps. I know one of them, well maybe two come to think of it.