Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Hanoi Hilton

As we look for things to do for the next couple of days i am surprised to learn to learn that our hotel actually built on the location of Hoa Lo prison or the fabled "Hanoi Hilton" from the Vietnam war. I am curious to visit the remaining memorial as seen in the map below (we are staying at the Somerset) but I am not sure that it is so appropriate for children. Apparently the American POW experience is a little whitewashed with the exhibit concentrating on the atrocities of the French against the Vietnamese.

Hard to believe it took us 3 weeks to discover this fact.

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