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To: libh8er

Memorial to a parachuting flyer at a Hanoi lake:

This memorial is not explicitly TO McCain, however that lake in the background IS the one he parachuted into after being shot down over Hanoi.

WHAT did he do to earn this commemoration, I wonder..?

7 posted on 10/20/2018 9:26:43 PM PDT by gaijin

To: gaijin

You have no idea what the nickels on the marker signify, do you?

11 posted on 10/20/2018 9:31:51 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)

To: gaijin

I’m pretty sure that’s the lake that Andrew Zimern of Bizarre Foods goes to for a freshwater prawn fritter.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/shrimp-cakes-hanoi-vietnam/index.html

27 posted on 10/20/2018 9:59:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)

To: gaijin

As per http://ktla.com/2018/08/30/john-mccain-remembered-as-a-friend-in-vietnam-not-an-enemy/ , the marker originally celebrated shooting down McCain’s plane. Now that McCain is dead and in honor of his part in normalizing diplomatic relations with Viet Nam, it is something of a shrine to him.

39 posted on 10/20/2018 11:24:50 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)

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