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| The Graham Greene Suite at the Hotel Metropole |
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| Terrace of Somerset Maugham Suite |
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| Metropole Hotel |
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| Playing a kind of badminton where you kick the shuttlecock instead of using a racket. |
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| The Opera |
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| The entrance to the bomb shelter built beneath the Metropole during the war with the United States. |
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| Entrance to the prison known as the Hanoi Hilton |
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| Most of the displays are not about the American POWs held here, but about the Vietnamese prisoners of the French |
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| The Vietnamese credit Americans with helping them win the war. |
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| A flight suit said to have belonged to John McCain |
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| Guitar and volleyball net in glass display case. Supposed to show U.S. prisoners had recreation opportunities. |
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| Wise mien above the gate at the Temple of Literature |
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| Graduating students go to the Temple of Literature to have their pictures taken. |
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| Model of the Temple of Literature |
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| Monument to the gunners who brought down John McCain's plane. He landed in this lake. |
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| Tran Quoc Pagoda, near the site where McCain landed after he was shot down. |
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| Hanoi Cathedral |
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| Preparing a cocktail that commemorates the Christmas 1972 bombing of Hanoi. It's called the Joan Baez, because she was there. |
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| Dancers in the early morning at a park near the Metropole Hotel. |
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| Watching a shuttlecock fly on a sidewalk badminton court. |
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