We drove north on National Route 1 to Hue.
But I couldn't even be sure if I had landed at the same airport and nothing in Da Nang looked familiar to me. I was particularly curious about Khe Sanh. I wanted to experience again the places I had known as a nineteen-year-old. Twenty-five years later I was excited as the airplane descended once more toward Da Nang. It was quiet and calm again, finally, although hundreds of Marines and thousands of North Vietnamese had died here since January. A headless body lay like a rusty beer can by the roadside near the first bridge.
The trees had been blown over, stripped of their leaves and branches. Every molecule of chlorophyll had been obliterated not by herbicides but mechanically, with explosives. In April, 1968, I left, a passenger in a jeep that drove out of the base on a convoy through the heart of Indian Country and beyond. I had 'choppered into Khe Sanh in 1967, just in time to celebrate Christmas. I was curious what had happened to Vietnam since I left, what had become of it? Had it changed as much as I had? So I joined a group of people with diverse motives and went back. My memories of the places I had been were quite vivid. Tour Bus at the Khe Sanh Combat Base, 1993 Peter BrushĪfter reading several accounts by people who had visited Vietnam lately, I realized that I had both the inclination and the money to make the trip. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, is a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the 1960s. The Sixties Project, sponsored by Viet Nam Generation Inc. This notice must accompany any redistribution of the text.
This text may not be archived, printed, or redistributed in any form for a fee, without the consent of the copyright holder. This text may be used, printed, and archived in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. Volume 5 Number 1-4 March 1994 This text, made available by the Sixties Project, is copyright (c) 1996 by Viet Nam Generation, Inc., or the author, all rights reserved. Tour Bus at the Khe Sanh Combat Base, Peter Brush
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