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City in Vietnam (now Ho Chi Minh City) where a tourist encounter with a helpful Indian man at a food market is recounted.

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"Obviously some cases more significant than others, but I do feel like we've reached a point of no return with the rot that pervades every aspect of society. Anyone involved in anything will have a story like this."
"I have missed the last chopper out of Saigon and now I must pay the ultimate price (endless yearning)"
"Picture this, we were in a food market our hotel guide recommended to us in Saigon. God knows what type of meat was being used in half of the places and how old the oil used for frying is. There are things crawling across the street from rats to cockroaches. But the market is bustling and we are sta"
Going against the grain with the India posting · swiftmen991 · ↑31 · 2025-03-03
"We all know photo of the famous monk who self immolated in Saigon in 1963. His brave sacrifice put pressure on the South Vietnamese government, won world press photo of the year, and got the attention of JFK."
Are people already forgetting about Luigi? · u/ExpertLake7337 · ↑29 · 2025-01-16
"Does anybody else think it's incredibly strange that Biden's complete fumbling of the pull out in Afghanistan, the most embarrassing military defeat since the fall of Saigon (including Afghani's falling from the wheel-wells of C-130's and 13 American troops blown up), has been completely memory hole"
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