Photographing Vietnam. 2024. Part Two.

 

Ho Chi Minh is still revered in Vietnam as the country's liberator from, first, the French, and then the Americans.  My half brother Leonard served 3 hitches in Vietnam -- and the wrongness of it savaged his conscience for the rest of his life.

 


 The Vietnamese revere these statues while reviling religion.

 


 Vietnamese sausages have a huge variety of ingredients, often including duck, pork, and dog.

 


 Portrait of Jen Ho. My second cousin, by marriage.

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