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edgardavidboshart
Nov 14, 20191 min read
Letters to a U.S. Veteran
Veterans of the U.S. military
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 17, 20183 min read
Vietnam's Mekong Delta (I) - Hot, Wet, Green
"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never...
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 10, 20184 min read
Vietnam Redo: Emperors and Gods
(Hue, Vietnam, part 2) Emperors and gods are sometimes (usually!) indistinguishable. In Asia, and especially looming China, central...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 30, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 7): Sailin' Ha Long (on the Bay)
I’ve spent a night on Halong Bay, on the coast of North Vietnam, twice. Both times, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience — (1) hauling...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 23, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo: Water and Buffalo in the North Country
It is finally time to leave Hanoi, the city, for a gambit in the countryside. But it takes time, as the metropolis is far-flung, hanging...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 4): War Paint
At one time, in the last century, Americans dabbed charcoal-tinted war paint on their faces and attempted to subdue a combined imperial...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 26, 20182 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 3): Long and Tall
I have always wanted to ask a puppet, in private, what it is like to be enslaved and forced to do its master’s bidding, subject to being...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 24, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 2): Peace and Mayhem
Hanoi (Ha Noi, “river’s inner”) is a large sprawling beehive(s) of activity, spotted with large construction projects and relentless...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 18, 20184 min read
Vietnam Redo; 2018 (Intro)
I visited North Vietnam the first time roughly 10 years ago. The country then had already moved on from the previous century of...
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edgardavidboshart
Aug 31, 20181 min read
Off to Southeast Asia (Again)
Tomorrow I leave for another visit to Vietnam and Cambodia for a couple of weeks. It has been 10 years since I was in these two...
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