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A small monument next to Truc Bach Lake celebrates the downing of McCain’s plane. “The citizens and military caught Pilot John Sidney McCain,” the statue’s engraving says. “This was one of 10 aircraft shot down that same day.” But in the days after McCain’s death, this monument has been transformed into a makeshift shrine. Admirers have been laying flowers, incense and money at the statue. The US Embassy in Hanoi laid a wreath there. … Nowadays, Hoa Lo Prison is a state museum, frequented by throngs of young tourists dressed in shorts and sandals. … From 1968 to 1973, Duyet...

Personally, I have nothing but respect for the military service of the late Senator John McCain of Arizona, who passed away Saturday after a long battle with brain cancer. And I don’t have anything to say about the way his family is mourning his death, people should be given as wide of a berth as they need to handle losing a loved one. It’s the reaction of everyone else in the political sphere with which I take issue. Feel free to call me a jerk, but when he wasn’t criticizing Republicans, no elected liberal or leftist journalist had anything good...