VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh is venerated throughout the country and this fact has kept numerous sculptors busy. Nowadays, with changing values, they have branched out to produce new favorites, including the Statue of Liberty.

VIET NAM. Near Ha Noi, billboards nowadays cast a shadow over the rice fields.

VIET NAM. Khe Sanh. This old lady built her house at the edge of the old US-built runway and in doing so became the first person to live in the base since the Americans left.

VIET NAM. At the Truong Son cemetery situated on a hill surrounded by eight others in Go Linh district. It is the final resting place for over 12,000 combatants, many of whom died protecting the nearby Ho Chi Minh Trail. At the cemetery there is a wall, the only one in Viet Nam, with the names of the fallen heroes.

VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. Foreign penetration can now be observed everywhere in Viet Nam. Poster on a bus stop that provides shelter from the sun and rain and a place for the weary to rest. The product, which some claim causes bone weakening, tooth decay and obesity, is unpopular as it makes the drinker thirsty.

VIET NAM. Ha Noi. Calisthenics conducted every morning on the streets.

VIET NAM. Ha Noi. At the Army Museum preparations are in place to satisfy the ever increasing tourist trade.

VIET NAM. Ha Noi. A street in Ha Noi where tomb stones are carved. This shop displays an uncollected plaque made for a multinational corporation whose product undoubtedly contributed to an increase in the number of customers.

VIET NAM. Mourners on their way to a funeral passing along a dyke set among paddy fields.

VIET NAM. Khe Sanh. The US Marines in Khe Sanh were under seige for 77 days. The attack was a decoy to lure troops away from the lowlands so that the National Liberation Front could launch the Tet Offensive. Today, Khe Sanh is firmly on the tourist trail with children selling trinkets, few of them authentic.

VIET NAM. Khe Sanh. Display of war time relics.

VIET NAM. Children living near the "Rockpile," the 230-meter karst, on top of which a small group of US Marine and Army men called in air strikes on targets in the surrounding countryside. The isolated base could only be re-supplied by helicopters. It was protected on all sides by mine fields, which still explode, wreaking misery on a population that has known nothing but war in its lifetime.

VIET NAM. On auspicious days soldiers from a nearby Army camp take turns to visit to place joss-sticks on each grave.

VIET NAM. Relatives from all over the country visit to locate tombstones and pay their respects.

VIET NAM. On auspicious days soldiers from a nearby Army camp take turns to visit to place joss-sticks on each grave.

VIET NAM. After China, Viet Nam has the highest rate of moblie phone growth in the world. They are marketed as status symbols to a people that traditionally thinks of silence as a virtue.

VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. Many observers claim that HCM City is quickly reverting to the old Sai Gon. With crime, corruption, beggars, drugs and prostitution back to wartime levels some consider the city is now qualified to join the world community.