Overheard on NPR's "All Things Considered" this afternoon during an otherwise innocuous story about a Vietnamese actress's show's cancellation due to a graphic sex tape's appearance on the Internet: "Mr. XXXX, CEO of one of Hanoi's largest public relations firms..."
If you had suggested to me in 1973 when I was in the Navy that Hanoi would someday have an economy which would support a public relations firm I'd have looked at you as though you were green.
Posted by Linkmeister at November 12, 2007 01:01 PM | TrackBackOne of my friends is a pastor who was very involved in anti-Vietnam War activities back in the day. He and his wife adopted several Vietnamese orphans. One boy in particular really grieved about the realization that he would never be able to go back home to VietNam. (He was a young teenager when adopted, I think.) Now, he owns an import/export business, has a house in Hanoi, a Condo in Los Angeles, and jet sets around the Pacific.
His dad just collapses in laughter about the whole idea that all these things are now possible, and the way the world has changed.
Posted by: Juli Thompson at November 15, 2007 05:44 AM