Today we went to the Cat Lai terminal. Our next stop
was the War Remnants Museum. A family friend of Seth treated us to dinner.
Later that night, Scott, Long, and I walked with UEF students to a plaza where
we ate cream puffs and drank coconut juice.
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Today we went to the Cat Lai terminal, which is the headquarters of the Saigon Newport Corporation. It is state-owned and the navy is its governing body. There are branches throughout Vietnam. They have pilot, depot, IT, warehousing, barging, trucking, construction, and training services. The marketing director showed us the control room and then allowed us to drive on site. This visit was of particular interest to me, because I want to study finance and supply chain management. I think it would be a dream job to someday handle operations in the control room. However, I was told the job can be more stressful than working as an air traffic controller. After we left the port, we went to the War Remnants Museum. Outside the main building, I saw American airplanes, helicopters, and boats with machine guns. The first floor of the museum contained pictures of Vietnam War protestors from around the world. There was also pictures of Ho Chi Minh meeting with American intellectuals who opposed the war. The second floor contained many war crime photographs. These included villages burned to the ground, soldiers holding Vietnamese prisoners, and deformed bodies. The effects of Agent Orange were especially hard to look at. A family friend of Seth, living in Vietnam, treated us to dinner. I wasn’t very hungry so I ordered Pho. Later that night, Scott, Long, and I walked with UEF students to a plaza where we ate cream puffs and drank coconut juice. A couple people who were selling drinks and food had to hide when police drove by. An older women hid behind me because of my size.
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