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Only death and destruction reigned here.
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| Hai Van Pass, site of some of the fiercest fighting in the Vietnam war. Over 30 years later, the forest cannot regrow back lush once again, the larger animals are long gone, never to reappear. Where poisons, like agent orange killed all living plant tissue, did irrevocable damage to human tissues, strewn rotting containers, of more poison wait for the future. The Ho Chi Min trail and tunnels carried the food, ammunition and even tanks and trucks, disensembled, and later reinsembled, for the troops of Vietnam. The Tet offence was a bloody carnage, and turning point of the war. Now only the ghosts of those gone inhabit bunkers and tunnels on this misty, soon to rain day. Land mines, chemicals to cause fire, and other leftovers of death, await the unwary footstep. |
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Hello Gloria:
You have shot this on the peak of Hai Van Pass and your location is between Quang Nam province and ThuaThien-Hue province. The gate is facing South, looking down to Danang Bay.
Danang City is 30 km away while the DMZ is 156 km away and belongs to Quang Tri province.
FYI, your photo subject is the same as this one and here is DMZ.
Regards,
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