Today has been a bit of a show stopper... after taking the time to entertain the staff at the resort we stayed at last night (see video above) I also created entertainment by getting a nail through my tyre and changing it on the side of the road. They were very kind in passing me the tube and checking to see if my tyre was pumped hard enough before I was allowed to put it back on my bike.
We've had a short day in the saddle, only 66km! We also popped out to see the site of the My Lim Massacre. I saw a documentary about this when I was at OCS, but never imagined I'd ever get to visit the site. The story goes that a bunch of US soldiers rocked up and went nutty, killing unarmed civillians, most of them women and children as the men were out at work . (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre). I tried to imagine what it would be like to be given orders to come to this village to find targets... then what it would have been like to hear the commotion and look out your kitchen window to see all of your neighbors murdered. ALL OF THEM! Then it would be over...
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