Return to Vietnam.(veteran of Vietnam War returns to develop university exchange programs)

Joseph S. Wood goes back to a changed country

It had been almost three decades since I left Vietnam. In the years intervening, I had traveled several times professionally in Asia but not found a reason, as if I needed it, to return to Vietnam. Now, in the fall of 1998, I was going back, this time to develop university exchange programs, to do some fieldwork on urban retail landscape, and to undertake some self-reflection.

Thoughts while in transit

My flight from Hong Kong to Hanoi on Vietnam Airlines began uneventfully, but even after thirty hours