DMZ, Vietnam

Here are a couple of pictures from the tunnels in the DMZ. During the war the Americans dropped something like 8 tonnes of bombs for every person living in this area.
Here's an old Russian anti-aircraft gun used by the North Vietnamese against the Americans.













Below is, sorry was, a bridge that had been washed away just a month before we arrived. The water was supposedly up to 2 meters above the banks of the river.
















These next two are gravestones in the North Vietnamese graveyard in the DMZ. The first line shows the soldier's rank. The next thier name. The next the year they were born. The nest the date they joined the army. The next four indicate the place they were born. The last line gives the date they died.

The one below is the headstone of a 33-year-old who joinedthe army when he was only 14.




This one is for a 12-year-old who joined the army when he was 9. Grim stuff.