Trip to Hanoi

I actually enjoyed reading Trip to Hanoi because, again, like Hearts and Minds, it gave us a different perspective of the Vietnamese people. What really got to me was when the author talks about the american pilot that was shot down by a Vietnamese farmer. They barried the guy and made like this shrine...then they go on to saying that they put him in a good coffin so that when the war was over his family could come and get the body. There was this big misunderstanding of the perception of the Vietnamese people and what was really going on in Vietnam. I think the author tries to convey this throughout this essay. "Thinking about Vietnam in America, it seems natural to dwell on destruction and suffering. But not here. In Vietnam, there is also a peaceful, fiercely industrious present with whic a visitor must be connected; and I'm not. I want their victory. But I don't understand their revolution." It's nice to read material that gives the Vietnamese people identity.