Hanoi Hilton

There were several prison camps located in North Vietnam, but they all shared the same basic characteristics as the Hanoi Hilton. Prisoners were isolated from each other to the greatest extent possible. The individual cells consisted of small concrete areas with a wooden bunk bed and a bucket to be used as a toilet. There was also typically a window although it was heavily barred with the amount of light protruding inside being minimal. The cell doors were heavy wood and contained a peep hole which the guards could easily access from the outside in order to look in on the prisoners. Prisoners were also given mosquito nets to protect them from the large amount of insects which would feast on the flesh of prisoners and guards alike. The nets would hook on four corners and shield the inmates from the parasites throughout the night. Given that the…

Prisoners-Of-War. (POW Camps, 2003) Eight of the thirteen were located outside the city of Hanoi, and the other five were in the city of Hanoi. The Vietnamese names for the camps to this day are still not known. The thirteen American names of the camps are as follows; Alcatraz, Briarpatch, Camp Faith, Camp Hope (Son Tay), Dirty Bird, Dogpatch, Farnsworth, Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo), Mountain Camp, Plantation, Rockpile, Skidrow, and Zoo. (POW Camps, 2003) Most of these camps were closed and reopened…

1. Introduction Although Vietnam is very famous for many things, such as Vietnamese cuisines, language, culture, destinations, a lot of people only remember Vietnam for one of the worst memories in every Vietnamese mind: the Vietnam War. In spite of the fact that this war was ended in 1975 which was about 40 years ago; the consequences of this war have been still affecting people until now. Together with the long–term impacts on the environment and changes in human genetics of veterans as a…

My name Lin Dao and I am writing to you from Hanoi which is located in Vietnam. You must be wondering why I took the liberty of finding out where you worked and decided to contact you specifically. The two part being is that I have recently watched a documentary called “Regret to Inform”. I am sure that, as a history teacher, you have seen this heart wrenching documentary about a woman whose husband died during the American War, or the Vietnam War as you call it, and how she contacted other…

The purpose of the interview was to learn about Vietnam, the country where my informant was born and lived until 1975 when Saigon was invaded by the North Vietnamese. In addition, I had desired to see Vietnam from a perspective other than the Vietnam War where Americans fought. However, there is another reason I chose Vietnam, I work with students whose parents are from Vietnam even though the parents are a younger generation their culture is alive and lived out in their community. Some of…

above the seventeenth parallel. China also advised Ho to begin developing and preparing for opportunities. Through 1960-1961, China gets ahead of the Soviet Union; however the Soviet Union becomes more involved later in the war. Ho takes much more advantage of the Soviet Union than of China. Ho begins to have a more open contact with China and the Soviet Union. In 1964, Mao Zedong feared that the ‘Korean War’ would happen again in Vietnam; he did not want more of the United States’…

some kind of fruit juice like coconut. The area of Saigon-Cho Lon is famous for selling many Chinese dishes. People can find anything they need, even in a vendor’s leaf knitting needle, there are still many types of farm product such as home-grown vegetables and home-raised fish. In the morning the neighborhood was very busy, attracting the West living in the colony. Meeting on the street is an inherent habit of the Vietnamese, making a very hectic pace of living on the streets of old Saigon.…

The chart has shown us that a typical one-day-menu of Vietnamese are closely meeting that standard of USDA. Overall, Vietnamese consumed a little bit more grains and protein than needed. The total calories came to 2131, which is 131 calories above the average daily calories recommend. But in order to fully understand this chart, we need to keep in mind that this plan does not tell the overall picture of every Vietnamese person. The diet varies from gender, economic status, jobs, geographical…

The Vietnamese War has always been a sensitive subject to Americans and the Vietnamese from that day forward. A poem named “Vietnamese Morning” written by Curt Bennett, truly speaks of that day. Bennett also reminds us how it is still affecting many of those men, women, and loved ones today. Curt Bennett was an American flight pilot during the Vietnamese War. Curt Bennett explains, expresses, and tells his experience throughout this poem, Vietnamese Morning. I decided to write about this…

After spending three years at my high school, I had a chance to know an immigrant to the US. She was born in Vietnam, which is the same country I was born. She came to the US with her family when she was 18 years old. I asked her the reasons why her family decided to immigrate to the US, and she told me both the push and pull factors that bought her family and she to the US. The push and pull factors were environment and economics reasons. In Vietnam, air pollution was a big problem, that…