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Nguyen Qui Duc

Nguyen Qui Duc is the author of Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family. A former journalist in San Francisco, he now lives in Hanoi, Vietnam where he owns a bar.

A new dragon statue guards the Citadel in Hue, seized by northern forces during the 1968 Tet Offensive but then recaptured in some of the fiercest combat of the Vietnam War.

Revisiting Vietnam 50 Years After the Tet Offensive

The battles of 1968 are long over. But the struggle to confront the truth goes on