No lying in the park!!
Trip Start
May 01, 2005
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Trip End
May 25, 2005
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Monday, May 2, 2005
today i went to the "war remnants museum" AKA the "war crimes museum". i'm kinda over all that killing stuff now. after cambodia and the things that happened there among their own people. i think war is just awful, but of course they tried to blame the americans.. which i guess is understandable given the horrific deaths they inflicted. death wasn't so bad but when there were massacres of women, children, pregnant women and old people... and children covered in napalm. well that's pretty horrific even for what the khmer rouge was doing..
anyway, after the deformed fetuses they keep in display in the museum, i thought i'd go for a little walk to the park. lying down on a park bench, i tried to avoid pointless conversations with moto drivers or part time tour operators trying to suck me into a stupid and overpriced tour.. along comes a cop on a moto, driving on the footpath, yelling "hey!!" and motioning with his hands for me to sit up. gun in his holster, i decided to do what he asked. looking at a fellow park inhabitant i looked a bit confused and indignant. he laughed and shook his head.. communism in action- how dare a foreigner take up a bench which could sit three when there are people elsewhere (obviously not in this park) who are going without seats??
