All blog posts for August 2011

Võ Nguyên Giáp: 100 years old today.

Author: daoosaigon. Published on Friday 26 August 2011 at 12:29 a.m. Categories: Việt Nam. Tags: Võ Nguyên Giáp, Điện Biên Phủ, war, censorship. Comments: 0.

It's newsworthy. Not many other veterans from the Việt Nam conflict got to score a century. So what would I like to say about him? I'd like to avoid the twin perils of hagiography and defamation. Let's go with a small bullet point history.

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