From Tuan Tran, on Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:19:27 GMT (in response to: Vietnam Portfolio -- Vietnamese People)
I enjoyed reading the responses regarding a request for a photo of a Vietnamese woman and a GI in love.
It is my impression that the "relationship" between Vietnamese women and GIs during the war was either: 1) prostitution or 2) the rape of an innocent young girl in a village. I don't understand why you want to glamourize the victimization of women.
Perhaps there was GIs and Vietnamese women in love, but I really doubt it, since most GIs didn't speak Vietnamese and most thought of Vietnamese as "Gooks."
Tuan Tran
Vietnam Interactive Portfolio, permanent message archive. Copyright© E. Kenneth Hoffman, 1995-2005