The Seattle Times · Jul 27, 2015
U.S., Vietnam forge new friendships
Nguyen Phu Trong, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, who comes to the United States this week, will be signing a deal with Boeing and visiting the White House.
DA NANG, Vietnam — The American and Vietnamese war veterans, former enemies, sat together at wooden picnic tables eating hamburgers and chili while Creedence Clearwater Revival played in the background.
Do Hung Luan, a former Viet Cong fighter who was imprisoned and tortured for nine years by America’s South Vietnamese allies, ate a burger and chicken wings with chopsticks.
Next to him was Nguyen Tien, whose wooden leg replaces the one he lost to U.S. artillery during the war.