God chose things that are not to nullify the things that are. 1 co 1:28
August 21 Friday Abe Lee checked us in at the 5 star Somerset Hotel at #49 Hai Ba Tung Stress, Hanoi.
After a short journey to a food market through the old city we (jacob esther i and rebekah) spent the night at the hotel.
Next morning (saturday) we moved to Halong Bay where we spent a night at the cabin of the cruise line.
A BIG THANK You to Abe for your generosity giving us a royal treatment paying for "everything".
It has been said "The Korean War is the first war the US lost." But the Vietnam War is the war both the US and Korea (among other nations) fought but lost."
The question becomes, "Why?"
The next day as I was heading back to Hanoi from the Ha Long Bay on the cruise line "Bhaya 7" 1 Co 1:28 came to mind:
people here are lowly in spirit, humble and kind, poor yet friendly. And her land comes with tons of beauties. The Lord preserved the land and her people for his good purpose.
Sunday we moved back to the hotel. MSN jacob served a message entitled "Fix your eyes on Jesus".
Monday morning along with Jacob and Esther we visited One pillar pagoda, Ho Chi Min Museum, and Literature Court.
At the Ho Chi Min museum I met Uncle Ho who loved and fought for his people like a father. Once his general Giap (who was 20 years youger than he) got tangled up in a scandal with a dancer, so was on the virge of getting purged. But instead of purging Giap he solved Giap's "marriage problem" by introducing to him a daughter of noble origin. Since then Giap stood and fought for him till he died at the age of 102 leaving two kids.
Dedicated to the cause of independence and freedom of his people and nation uncle ho did not marry. He died at the age of 79 without seeing the nation freed and united. He died poor leaving a pair of sandals and a pistol.
People of Vietnam are happy to have a father figure who loved them. So they call him "Uncle Ho". This coming Sept. 2 they celebrate the 70 years of independence so streets, government buildings and stores were adorned with banners bearing the number 70.
Tuesday evening the last night of our stay in Saigon Abe took us to one of the best restaurants in town located at a highrise building. There I could see saigon becoming a boom town like Kangnam of Seoul.
(After occupying the land first in the north and then south they tried the communist idiology but quickly learned that it is a prescription for emptiness, so they quickly trashed it out and went for western thoughts like "the poor can become rich the rich richer". )
Books to read:
# The sorrow of war by frank palmos
# Ho chi minh thought on the military, ministry of national defence
# People's war people'army by vo nguen giap
# vietnam war by stanley karnow
# Ho Chi Minh' biography by Chu Duc Tinh Phd
♡ Quotable quotes:
(In an interview conducted by Stanly Karnow in 1946, Ho Chi Minh was asked:
"How long would you have gone on fighting against The United States?"
HO said, "Another 20 years, maybe a hundred years, as long as it took to win, regardless of cost.")
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| Uncle Ho Inspecting People's Army |
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