Returning to Viet Nam

Jerry Noga, a retired Army officer and an old OCS classmate, will spend the week after Christmas traveling in Viet Nam with a buddy. He’s planning to stop in at Hoi An, south of Da Nang, the only readily-visitable place where I spent much time, so I’m hoping for a decent photo of what the old MACV compound there looks like now. These trips are an idea more and more veterans have succumbed to in recent years. I’m still trying to convince my old no. 2 to return with me "to those thrilling days of yesteryear," but so far he’s resisting. Says he didn’t leave anything there, except some blood and he doesn’t miss it.