Summary on Vietnam & The U.S. A New Chapter?

  After reading the article, Vietnam & The U.S. A New Chapter?,  I got the sense that Vietnam and the U.S. are beginning to unite closer then anyone would have thought they would have a couple decades ago. By the end of the Vietnam war, the Americans lost to the communist side of Vietnam, and their relations between each other were very rocky. Until, 1995 when diplomatic relations were restored between the two countries, changing everything. Now the U.S. is the largest importer of Vietnamese goods, helping Vietnam out a lot. even though the older citizens of Vietnam still feel the "battle scars" of the war, the younger generations seems more open to the new unity of America and Vietnam. The younger generations of Vietnam don't understand the pain that the war that caused for many of their grandparents. "For them, the war they learned about in school as "The American War" might as well have happened centuries ago," (Thomas Fuller, N.Y.T.) this is how many of the kids in Vietnam feel. But, many of the citizens in Vietnam still feel the effects of the war in common day life. For example, Agent Orange is a constant reminder to all the citizens of the horrible war  that happened only four decades ago. Agent Orange is a toxic defiant that American Soldiers sprayed over jungles to destroy vegetation that provided cover to Vietcong fighters and North Vietnamese troops. To this day no vegetation grows there, and many citizens got many types of cancers, birth defects and other diseases. And after many pleas for help, America finally decides to help with the clean up of Agent Orange. In conclusion, many people believe that there is a good future for the relationship between the two nations, and many high hopes for further relations.