During the three years I spent in Hanoi, I never witnessed hostility toward Americans. They just want to have fun.”įorty years after millions of Vietnamese were killed in the war, in which more than 58,000 Americans also died, locals I’ve spoken with bear little animosity toward the United States. “Most young people nowadays don’t really care about what happened. “No one our age talks about it,” Hien, a recent university graduate from Hanoi who gave only her first name, told me. For the nearly 70 percent of the population under age 40, April 30 is just a day off from work or school. But most Vietnamese are too young to remember the day in 1975 when Saigon fell, celebrated in Hanoi as Reunification Day. Today, April 30, red flags are festooning the streets of Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, to mark the fourth decade since the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government surrendered to communist North Vietnamese troops and ended the Vietnam War.
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