Vietnam

SCENES FROM SAIGON, 2018

Decades after the final U.S. troop withdrawals, images of Vietnam are still vividly imprinted in the memories of veterans: where they lived, where they worked, where they were wounded. Some scenes from the past are pleasantly nostalgic, while others are painful, or best forgotten.

Many veterans, however, have gone back for fresh images of those places. One is Vietnam magazine contributor Rick Fredericksen, a Marine newsman with American Forces Vietnam Network in 1969-70. He returned to the city he knew as

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