50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷

Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

Lots of tiny red Vietnam flags lined up across a tree, blue sky avoce and curbside below A cardboard build your own tank as part of the newspaper. A gift to readers, all under the header of 50 years of glory, the propaganda of the government. The longer you read about propaganda propaganda, the less dramatic it sounds. But lest not forget that this was a civil war and that there's a history with a yellow flag, communities still strong, e.g., in the US