Mother of all ironies: US veterans are returning to Vietnam ‘for a better life’

Mother of all ironies: US veterans are returning to Vietnam ‘for a better life’

It sounds almost unbelievable, but a number of US citizens are deciding to cash out of the elusive ‘American dream’ as they settle down in foreign places, such as Vietnam, where many of them were once loathed as invaders. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. For many Americans, those names invoke powerful memories and images of unspeakable violence, and perhaps the last places on earth to consider visiting.