American Remnants Museum

It doesn't matter what side you are on or what spin you want to apply - war is ugly.  Our visit to the American Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) was in stark contrast to our other group projects during our tour with Eyes Wide Open.  Whereas Green Gecko, Future Light, Sunrise projects are all about people caring for those less fortunate, respect and compassion, the Remnants Museum demonstrated the horrors that humans are capable of in times of war and occupation.  Whilst this particular museum had an agenda to push, which was very obvious, the same pictures could easily have hung in the Cambodian Genocide Museum or the Holocaust Memorial or the Displays from Changi Prison- just the faces would have been different.  A strange experience on the day before Christmas but I guess it just underpins the importance of the humanitarian work that is ongoing in the world which is a counter-balance to the atrocities of war in any country.   

-Sue