We spent yesterday morning at the Cu Chi tunnels. When we arrived, we first had to watch a propaganda movie about the village of cu chi. There were some great propaganda phrases in it including "American killer hero" referring to the men and women of the village.
We then went on a tour of the tunnels and saw the small entrances to the tunnels. A few of the guys from the group tried to get in, but got stuck! We all had a good laugh! We also saw some of the booby trap set in the tunnels. They were very well disguised, I'm sure I would have gotten caught in one.
One of the most ingenious things I thought was the kitchen. In order to hide the smoke, they built a series of passages and filters, through which the smoke was funneled through, so that by the time it got above ground it looked like the morning mist!
At the end of the tour we got a chance to go into some of the tunnels. These tunnels have been widened to accommodate the western bodies.........so small still though! I can't imagine how they actually crawled around down there!
It's hard not to see this and draw parallels to the Iraq war. A country that we invade but so thoroughly misunderstand the culture, that it can only end in a quamire.
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