1975: The Day I Left Saigon
I started looking for something familiar from the time we touched down at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tansonhut Airport on an evening flight from Danang. It had been nearly 31 years since I left on April 29, 1975, the day before Saigon fell.
Nobody calls it Ho Chi Minh City, except for a few proper tour guides and government functionaries. Just about everything f…
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