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The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) Central Committee announced on December 2 that it has decided to provide emergency relief worth 540 million VND (nearly 23,800 USD) in cash and goods for people severely affected by floods in the south central provinces of Binh Dinh and Phu Yen.
colonel jacobs a west point professor of military strategy wants to know. how many days before we got there did he know we were coming? translator: three days in advance. it was an unrelenting ambush seen from the air by the helicopter pilot he radios for help. don t bother, he said, it s too hot down here. it s really bad. i said, all right. tell me where the enemy is and he says, they re all around us. reporter: seen from the ground by a vietnamese farmer now 90 years old who heard the helicopter. i remember the day in march 1968, bombs exploded over there. two americans were hit badly. were you injured? yeah, my head. my last surgery was last year. so i have a lot of surgeries. reporter: but this is a story perhaps best told not in words but gestures. the traditional sign of goodwill
he says, they re all around us. and seen from the ground by a vietnamese farmer now 90 years old who heard the helicopter. translator: i remember the day in march 1968, bombs exploded over there. two americans were hit badly. were you injured general hung asks? my head. my last surgery was last year. so i have a lot of surgeries. but this is a story perhaps best told not in words, but gestures. the traditional sign of good will in vietnam, a clutched hand. a laugh, and time and again, spontaneous hugs. you know, it s good that we, after all the fighting we both survived to meet each other in friendship. in just an hour, two old soldiers who battled fiercely in combat, find understanding, respect, and in the end, true affection making peace with the