Do you know the way to San Jose?

I took the opportunity of my westerly excursion to the WPPI convention in Las Vegas to visit an old friend. Colonel Nguyen Van Vien was my counterpart in the Vietnam War. His five children have all married and had children of their own, so I stopped into San Jose to meet the family of 18!

Vien's wife, BA, passed on a few years ago but Mai, the oldest daughter, Vien, and I decorated her grave and lit incense in her memory. It was a hard trip. The wounds are still open and it is not easy to pick at them.