Dialogue with Iran, Syria and N. Korea, Iraq turning into another Vietnam, Our Troops being let down by constant mistakes and bad descisions.

I could nearly become a Republican myself, if Hagel would succeed in getting rid of these NEOCONS in the White House.

He was aged between 18 & 22 in the army on the DMZ in Korea and Viet Nam. I was a little kid when he went in. I remember he brought the medals home but has refused to speak of what ever happened to earn them. I know he thought I was too young then. I'm nearly 50 and I want to know what my brother went through. His boot camp was at Fort Bragg,N.C. in 1967. He then went straight to Nam.

He was aged between 18 & 22 in the army on the DMZ in Korea and Viet Nam. I was a little kid when he went in. I remember he brought the medals home but has refused to speak of what ever happened to earn them. I know he thought I was too young then. I'm nearly 50 and I want to know what my brother went through. His boot camp was at Fort Bragg,N.C. in 1967. He then went straight to Nam.

He was aged between 18 & 22 in the army on the DMZ in Korea and Viet Nam. I was a little kid when he went in. I remember he brought the medals home but has refused to speak of what ever happened to earn them. I know he thought I was too young then. I'm nearly 50 and I want to know what my brother went through. His boot camp was at Fort Bragg,N.C. in 1967. He then went straight to Nam.

I am planning to visit Korea and Vietnam (among other places)...and I was wondering whether or not group touring (set up by agencies) are the way to go...or independent touring...setting up a hotel, choosing my own sites to see, etc...

I realize in Vietnam, as an American I can be taken advantage of (I heard this happens even to Vietnamese-Americans)...although, I guess it can happen in any country where there is a different language being spoken...

I'm particularly interested in Asian countries, Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand or Vietnam.

Since the fall of China's first dynastic empire (Qin Dynasty) the Chinese conquered what is now Vietnam during the Han Dynasty in the 200BCs and ruled for over 1,000 years. Given this timeframe, one would expect the Chinese to totally assimilate them. Yet, Vietnam is independent today and the Vietnamese language remains intact. They only borrowed the benefits of Chinese civilization/culture. But, the Chinese had never made the attempt to eradicate and assimilate them totally. The northern part of Korea was also under the rule of the Han Dynasty for over 400 years and they too later got independent and threw off Chinese rule. This is proof that the Chinese never had desires to rule the world as envisioned in the collective Western physche and mind.

I am Vietnamese, my husband is Korean, we communicate both in Korean and English. I want to talk to my little son both in Vietnamese and English, but i prefer speaking E to him, because learning E in Korean will spend a lot of money in Korea. I speak E with strong accent and sometimes i speak in incorrect grammar and incorrect pronunciation, i afraid that i teach my son informal and incorrect E. But i really want to teach him E. Tell me your advice, guys. Thanks so much

To you linguists what language family do you think each one belongs too. I dont think any of them belong to Sino-Tibetan, and I dont see how people think Korean and Japanese can be Austronesian while Vietnam is closer to Austronesian languages, and I also think Vietnam is more cculturally related to Austronesian than Korea or Japan, because I read that Korea is considered Austronesian because they think people came from eggs, like Austronesians, well the Vietnamese did too, so what language family do you think each one comes from