Robert Higgins reflects on the fall of Saigon 40 years ago today to communist North Vietnam. While views are divided, for most in Vietnam, reunification of the country has been a good thing

IT’S not easy to find a turkey dinner in Hanoi, but a handful of Americans and their Vietnamese friends gathered on Thanksgiving over an imported bird cooked for them at a fancy restaurant in the capital’s old quarter, and they gave thanks.

IT’S considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, but I must make an exception regarding US Army General William Westmoreland, who passed away at the age of 91 on July 18.