Army Gen. Martin Dempsey has served 40 years in the Army, fought in Iraq, traveled the world many times over.
None of that fully prepared him for his first visit to Vietnam — the first by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since Adm. Thomas Moorer visited in 1971. At that time, there were 300,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam.
“Flying in, it’s almost visually overwhelming,” Dempsey told USA TODAY, which joined him on the trip. “The architecture. The mopeds. The images of modernity clashing with the past. Women in the fields tending to the rice patties, walking down the street with the pole and two buckets.
“So you’ve got this juxtaposition with who they’ve been and who they are now.”
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1o5DVJ1
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