Sunday, October 13, 2013

Gen. Giap



From a reader:  "Vietnamese poured into the capital on Sunday to bid farewell to Vo Nguyen Giap, the general who masterminded historic defeats of France and the United States to become one of the 20th century's most important military commanders. Crowds lined the streets of Hanoi cheering, crying and holding aloft pictures of "Red Napoleon", a national legend with a domestic standing second only to the leader of Vietnam's struggle against colonialism, Ho Chi Minh."