European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A guard let outside Hanoi s military museum. Visitors right View the tank thai crashed the Gates of Saigon s Praia denial Palace at the end o1 the War. By Hal Drake monuments monuments everywhere anywhere a visitor looks or Lurns in  is statue lomb museum or plaque to hero m the marxist pantheon of Mir Larsin Lenin Park an american tra de by children happens on a Granite bus of a Ace beneath a sculpted Pompadour a Young lace locked in a Resolute frown it could be Frederic Chopin about to compose the Reval orgy etude or a beardless Marx writing i he stanzas of a stirring diatribe. But there s something remotely familiar about that dead face to Iho american ask the children the guide urges Soully the Aine can Lurns to them motions to Ine tall Pedestal Nguyen vant Roji they respond a chorus Nguyen von hoi the 19 year uld slut Serif  on a t1 j9g4. Was Caushi by South vietnamese police under the Cong by in dec in Saigon rigging explosive that out have flared under a limousine carrying be Ense so Retar roofer Mcnamara five months later he was roped to a slate on a so chef f Cid a a firing squad locked and lond a Nguyen Van Troy gathered his last Realti 10 Choul. Down with the americans Long live to Chi wmh1 1 the children All know him the guide says us Laughl in history classes " eleven years alter Duong Van Minn sorrowfully broadcast his surrender message in what would become to Gui Minn City the thirty Vears a Rome 20th Century is a pageant preserved in paint and Frozen in Granite never forgotten or shelved in the attic of history on a traffic Circle by the Lake of the restored sword there is a statue of biker peasant Soldier All brandishing a Resolute list at the foreign bombers that wheeled overhead during the dark Christmas season of 972. Tie people Musl never be stowed of forget the guide says they Defeated a major european Power forced the americans of withdraw and then drove a finishing Ance into the Coiro fed heart of imperialism two Long wars used Sirilo one must be the unifying Symbol during Rice shortages natural disaster and clashes along the i Arjile bolder Witti China it must inspire the a Lional spin As the War Ujj Cambodia a age on and on. Constant tribute is pad to the dead hand that Surrey and stoked the evolution 3rd raised the red. Callow a jarred hag from a giant a Loca Mau let no one  who thai is to Chi ugh Leader to dead 17 year he is never Oil of sight from the Naidert Cameo b Lions a inked by Lakeside vendors Loho Tum Soll lying in icon Geraled repast in a Gigot sepulchre built with sonet help the Stone mib on Dien Oien Phu spree has All the look of a soviet Monument dense and spectacular Vith the up curving eaves of a peasant Home and an Asphalt Parade Plaza the size of a Sears parking lot. On any sunday of Bow the crowd the Centipede of worker peasant Soldier. The red scared schoolchildren called the Young pioneers. This is a required Devotion Lor the pioneers pal of their political catechism and there is no restless stirring among the disciplined Young police in Mustard yellow uniforms keep a thousand told line of Young and old in orderly flow. Eldes from a Distant province bring a Wreath Bright Flowers on a bar boo rack passed to Natty White gloved guards who carry it in slow motion Goose step to the Marble Entrance. The line shuttles briskly now. Through the Entrance and up a red rubber Rug that covers two hights of Steps because the refrigerated coffin keeps them Damp and so