Today I went to the cu chi tunnels which were where some viet cong lived and hid during the Vietnam War. It was nuts, there were three levels and it was so small, you had to crawl on your hands and knees. It was definitely not for the claustrophobic at all, I was blindly feeling in the dark for meters at a time and you don't know when it goes up or down, it was crazy!!
We also saw an old propaganda film applauding the "American killers" of the war (one woman received a medal who had killed 118 americans). It definitely is interesting to see the other perspectives of things since we probably have propaganda like that against the viet cong. In addition, we saw the old booby traps with spikes that they used to set on doors and in the ground, it was pretty grimace-worthy. After seeing all this, my impression was that there is no doubt that the viet cong were pretty clever fighters, they had amazing tactics with very little resources.
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