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You are certainly entitled to your hard feelings, but there are still quite a few veterans of WWII and the Korean War around and that hasn't stopped us from doing business with Japan, Germany, and China. Considering the levels of horrific atrocities committed by all three against our forces there should be even worse feelings among veterans about our having let bygones be bygones with them. The Vietnamese very much want a friendly relationship to develop, politically and militarily because of their very uncomfortable proximity to an expansionist China.

We basically defaulted, never a battle lost, to the North because of incompetent and later treasonous leadership and conduct by a Democrat president and Congress, and a fifth column press. But when China tried to push her little neighbor around she got her nose well bloodied. And the reasons why it would be advantageous for us to develop a relationship with a country adjacent to China, with several excellent seaports on a thousand mile long coast line, ought to be pretty obvious. To the Vietnamese I've met overseas the war is ancient history and they crave a new relationship with us. Personally, I think having one with them is long overdue.