Another Funny Taiwan Sign

Signs like this for the luxury housing development "Town in Town" can be seen all over Taipei. For a complement to this sign, see a different kind of sign: http://www.flickr.com/photos/philandlizarcher/547699877/in/set-72157600355752081/

Vets With A Mission

With Hien, one of the great translators and helpers on the team


Dad and his stethoscope at the Marble Mountain Health Clinic


Checking a younger patient


Joe, a Vietnam vet comes back to Vietnam to spread love


Trung helps hold a young patient


The young girl flashes a smile


Dad talks to the patient with Tung's help while Mom takes notes


Examining the patient while Tung looks on


Going into the clinic while the crowd waits outside

Remembering Con Thien

The view looking west from Con Thien today. Hard to believe that it was once a "Hell On Earth" for American soldiers. Here they were mercilessly pounded by North Vietnamese big guns from just across the "Demilitarized Zone". They had to hold their ground here; and were not allowed to cross the "DMZ" to go after the enemy who was shooting at them.

It's a peaceful place today, but it wasn't always. This is a view looking more toward the north in the direction of the old "DMZ".


Looking back out toward Laos and the direction of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail (Communist supply route)


A famous stare


These are images from the covers of Life and Time magazines, October 1967. U.S. Marines are pictured under fire from North Vietnamese shelling across the "DMZ". These men did their best to take cover in bunkers, between sandbags and in trenches.


Here's what remains of one of those trenches today. How many lives did this one save?

FSEC Walking Billboard

At the "Big C" department store in Danang, movie outing day for the FSEC students

Firebase Fuller, 38 Years Later

View from Firebase Fuller today


In the same area pictured above (sometime around 1970) a recoilless rifle fires at a sniper position down the hill.


Walking through history

Smoke from a B-52 strike fills the valley near The Rockpile (viewed from Firebase Fuller)

Report from Stars and Stripes Magazine, 1970


Today standing on top of the old Firebase Fuller (Dong Ha Mountain)

The sand has been in these bags for around 40 years

Claymore mine plate and crank, along with with bullets picked up from the old base

Hai's happy to have made it to the top

Interesting Menu Item

Wanna try one of those? This one comes from the Tulip Restaurant in Danang.

Hoi An Lanterns

A shop in Hoi An

Local Market Girl

This girl at the flower market didn't need to be told to pose for a picture :)