Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Vietnam!
I retired from blogging once I got to HCMC (Ho Chi Minh City, official name of city those of us in the U S call Saigon. Along with the other oppressive actions the US has done is to Anglicize the spelling of Viet Nam, Sai Gon, Ha Noi, etc. There are no multi syllabic words in Vietnamese and my friend and staunch Veteran for Peace friend reminded me that it is a sign of respect to spell the names correctly.
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