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After the Reunification Palace we continued on to the War Remnants Museum. Per Wikipedia:
Operated by the Ho Chi Minh City government, an earlier version of this museum opened on September 4, 1975, as the Exhibition House for US and Puppet Crimes[1] (Vietnamese: Nhà trưng bày tội ác Mỹ-ngụy). It was located in the former United States Information Agency building. The exhibition was not the first of its kind for the North Vietnamese side, but rather followed a tradition of such exhibitions exposing war crimes, first those of the French and then those of the Americans, who had operated in the country as early as 1954.[2] In 1990, the name was changed to Exhibition House for Crimes of War and Aggression (Nhà trưng bày tội ác chiến tranh xâm lược), dropping both “U.S.” and “Puppet.”[2] In 1995, following the normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States and end of the US embargo a year before, the references to “war crimes” and “aggression” were dropped from the museum’s title as well; it became the War Remnants Museum.[2]
It was fascinating to see a memorial to the “American War” from a perspective so different than the one so commonly pushed in the US. They don’t shy away from the fact that America was the invader/interloper.
The outdoor courtyard is filled with numerous US and Vietnamese weapons and vehicles. Here is an old tank and helicopter behind it.
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