Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, commemorating the names of servicemen who enlisted in South Australia and made the supreme sacrifice. Dedicated 15 October 2006.
____Vietnam War Memorial - Adelaide_____ This was unveiled only a few weeks ago in the Torrens' Parade Grounds. The ceremony caused a bit of controversy as little Johnny's government threatened to widthdraw funding for the memorial if the vets chose to fly the South Vietnamese flag.
Vietnam War Memorial - Houston
War memorial, Vietnam
Vietnam War Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial in World War Memorial Park, St. Louis, Missouri. Memorial to those who fought in the Vietnam War.
Vietnam & Korean War Memorial - Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Hmong Vietnam War Memorial, Deland Park in Sheboygan, WI.
Vietnam War Memorial, Philadelphia
Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Combat Medic Memorial
In Memoriam To those Men from Mississippi County Who gave their lives In the Vietnam War
Moody, Larry Gene -Wallace, Ephron Jr. - Dozier, Jerald L. -Langston, Everett E. - Keeling, Arthur Ray - Friar, Freddy - Taylor, David F. "Rick" - Modesitt, Samuel Lee - Stout, John H. - Crockett, Joel - Bradford, Willie B. - Walters, John Edward - Williams, Burnell Jr. - Kennedy, Charles F. - Hornberger, Joe Keigh - McGee, Bolen P. - Woods, Earl - Stroud, Edward E. - Robinson, Horace V. Jr. - Miller, Carl J. - Davis, Kenneth Joe - Dixon, Tommy J. - Greenwood, Dale T. - Grant, Robert E. - Brown, William H. - Kelly, Larry - Lynch, James O.
In Memoriam To those Men Who gave their lives In the Vietnam War.
Vietnam Women’s Memorial
Each Memorial Day and Veterans Day, the stories of the women cast in bronze come to life as veterands and other American patriots share their experiences “in their own voices.”
Through verse, prose and music, a tapestry of stories is woven by women who served in support of the Armed Forces: nurses, administrators, air traffic controllers, journalists, women who entertained troops as members of the USO and Red Cross, women who served in a variety of occupations around the world. Men who knew their sisters in war and have partnered with them to ensure healing and peace also share their stories in a compelling and educational way.
Children and families, women and men, Veterans and their friends are invited to attend this commemmoration of the sisters and daughters and mothers and wives who served during the Vietnam era.
Storytellers are featured every 15-30 minutes near the site of the Vietnam Womens’s Memorial (at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) beginning at 8:30 and concluding at 4:45pm.
Keith Allen Christophersen - South St Paul, Minnesota.
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left behind grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them..." - from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon -
Australian & (ARVN) Army of the Republic of Vietnam Memorial, Dandenong
Dandenong RSL President Mr. Alec Kowarzik
From a lay person's point of view, the two bronze soldiers, the centre-piece of the Vietnam Memorial of Victoria to be unveiled at the Dandenong RSL this Saturday, are magnificent works of art.
The soldiers, one Australian, one South Vietnamese, will stand side by side, united in comradeship and dwarfed by a helicopter - a former medical evacuation chopper donated by the RSL - which will hover above them at the top of a six-metre-high pole.
But their Melbourne-based creator, Lis Johnson, who has been making figurative bronze statues for two decades, is humble about her role in the project, the culmination of 10 years' fundraising by a handful of Vietnam veterans, to mount a memorial commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
"It's their baby - they've been wanting this for a long time. My role in this public commission requires little artistic input, but lots of technical skill," Johnson explains.
Her part in the Vietnam memorial began last July with numerous discussions with the veterans, who initially wanted the soldiers standing back-to-back. Subsequent drawings and emails followed, and it was agreed they should stand side by side
Then their "drapery", another point of debate, was brainstormed. Johnson is referring to the water bottles, backpacks, grenades, bayonets, torches, ammunition and bandage packs, coiled rope, trenching tools, rifles and webbing (belts and straps) that soldiers carry in battle.
Two "real" soldiers then came to her studio to dress her models for photographs on which she would later base moulds. What was inspiring, Johnson says, is that when the models appeared in full armour, "they looked harrowed, as if they could have been at war".
"I wanted to convey the hardship and vulnerability of these soldiers' lives. I wanted the sculptures to evoke sympathy, and here they were, standing in a studio in West Footscray, hot, exhausted-looking, with sweat trickling down their faces."
From the photographs, Johnson made clay moulds of the soldiers' anatomy with and without drapery, which was moulded separately in plasticine and cast in plastic, "because there was so much of it, if I'd cast it in clay it would have fallen off".
Describing the brief as "one of the more difficult and challenging" of her career, she admits "one of my least favourite tasks was sculpting the shoelaces, which had to be threaded a special way so they could cut them in one go to remove the boot quickly, then re-touching them in wax".
from "The Age" newspaper, 26 April 2005
ABC Stateline Transcript Broadcast: 29/04/2005 Reporter: Lisa Whitehead
Vietnam War Memorial to honour Vietnamese soldiers and civilians
ANDY NGUYEN, VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL COMMITTEE: When we was invited to march on Anzac Day, we was very delighted because with us is South Vietnamese soldier, we have nowhere to go, no-one recognise us. Now Australian soldier, Australian veteran remember us and ask us to join, very good. We love it, so we join, we march every year, every year.
LISA WHITEHEAD, REPORTER: On Monday, veterans of the South Vietnamese army and their families marched with Australian ex-servicemen and women to Dandenong's Pillars of Freedom. For Andy Nguyen the invitation to march in the Dandenong Anzac Day parade each year is recognition that the Vietnamese community also made great sacrifices and they too needed time and place to remember their fallen comrades.
JOHN WELLS, SEC. DANDENONG RSL: These guys see themselves as Australians first and Vietnamese second, and it was their determination that the Australian flag should precede them down the road. It's good to see them here.
LISA WHITEHEAD: These men represent some of the 10,000 veterans of the South Vietnamese army who fled their country after the war and eventually settled in Victoria. Andy Nguyen, now 59, says he will always be grateful for the opportunity to start a new life, a chance denied to the Vietnamese soldiers and civilians who lost their lives in the war. He says their sacrifice deserves to be remembered and the Victorian Vietnamese community must have a place to honour them.
ANDY NGUYEN: We need somewhere just for us so I had the idea we build the memorial. We come out there, just burn the incense and just pray for them, yeah, I remember you; you die for us to survive.
LISA WHITEHEAD: During the war, Andy Nguyen qualified as a lawyer then served as a ranger with an air borne division of the South Vietnamese army. After the war was lost, he scraped together a living selling spare bike parts on the street and lived in constant fear of imprisonment.
In 1981 he escaped Vietnam in this wooden boat. Forty people were expected to make the journey. Instead, 118 people crammed aboard.
ANDY NGUYEN: We tried with the family, but so many times, we failed and so the last time I tried, I escaped by myself first. After four days on the sea, yeah, luckily we went to Malaysia and been accepted as a refugee to Australia.
LISA WHITEHEAD: Three months later, Andy's wife Kim and their three year old son Ian also made the dangerous journey by boat. They were then re-united with Andy in Melbourne. Twenty-four years on, son Ian is qualified doctor and Andy Nguyen runs an accounting practice in Footscray.
JOHN WELLS: He's a sincere man, he's driven by this project. He likes a bit of fun. He's also a man who came here as a refugee, who is fantastically passionately patriotic about Australia, to the point where I said to him, "Would you let your son join the army here?" And he said "Not if there was a war here, I would join the army." And he said "I had nothing when I came here." He's done very well. As he says he's been very lucky but he's been very lucky by working seven days a week and ten hours a day.
LISA WHITEHEAD: The Vietnam Memorial Committee has worked hard running raffles and fundraising dinners to collect most of the $170,000~needed to build the memorial but in the early days for Andy Nguyen, it seemed money was the least of their worries. After knock backs from five local councils, he still hadn't found a home for the bronze statues of an Australian soldier and a South Vietnamese soldier standing side by side. Then, in late 2002, Andy met Dandenong RSL secretary and Vietnam veteran John Wells and the dream became a reality.
JOHN WELLS: Andy wanted a memorandum for Vietnamese who have died and remember that we now have many Vietnamese ex-service many out there. They wanted a memorial, they had nowhere to put it. He was having trouble finding the space from any of Melbourne's municipalities. We had a space, we had a vision, he had a vision and he became a great mate.
ANDY NGUYEN: John said "We have a small land but if you like it." I said "I don't need a big land, what I need is your heart. Anywhere we can put the monument is enough."
LISA WHITEHEAD: John Wells already had a can-do reputation. After all, he just persuaded the US army to donate a chopper to the Dandenong RSL's own Vietnam memorial.
JOHN WELLS: Huey was the one~- is the one thing that links all Vietnam veterans. If we needed food, water ammunition, they brought it. If we needed someone up on top to have a look at what was going on, they did it, and significantly with that one, if we were hurt, that's the one that came and got us. That sound still sends shivers up my spine
LISA WHITEHEAD: This potent symbol of the Vietnam conflict will now hover above the bronze statues of an Australian digger and a South Vietnamese soldier at the entrance to the Dandenong RSL. The bronze statue started taking shape in this Footscray foundry six months ago. From the clay models to the final life size figures. Sculptor Liz Johnston and the Vietnam War Memorial Committee sweated over every detail.
STEVE LOWE, VIETNAM VETERANS' ASSOCIATION: I can't wait to see it finished and - -
LIZ JOHNSTON: Under the chopper.
STEVE LOWE: Now we embrace the Vietnamese community, the veterans in particular, but not exclusively, they again are our brothers, side by side. I mean, they come from a society which is so bound to their ancestors and so to be able to pay the respect in a special way and in a special place, they can do this for the first time.
LISA WHITEHEAD: Tomorrow morning on the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the Governor-General will unveil the memorial at a dedication service and this soldier can report his job is finally done.
ANDY NGUYEN: It's a big day for us and we could not, we'd never, never forget that time.
Went to High school in Portland, First Madison then to Sunset where he graduated. He lived in Seattle when he was drafted and when he died that was his residence. He attended Lewis and Clark Colleage in Vancouver WA. He leaves behind his loving Brother Brian who still takes care of his grave every month of Washington and another Brother Dennis of CA. His loving mother Marian Danforth and her husband and loving "dad" Jack "Danny" Danforth. He also leaves behind two daughters, Heidi and Shelly, both of California and five grandchilden he has never met. He is loved and missed dearly by Brian and his wife Stephanie, Dennis and wife Elain, His nephews, Andrew, Jason, Ron, and niece Michele who never got the chance to know and love him. He also leaves a treasured wife of only three months who still loves and misses him to this day.
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114th Aviation Company Memorial Day - 2000
A simple granite monument dedicated to 70 members of the 114th Aviation Company was unveiled Saturday, May 27, 2000. Many members of the 114th Aviation Company gathered for the dedication. The monument was placed in front of a helicopter that is part of the park’s aircraft exhibit. The helicopter was used by the 114th during the Vietnam War. You can read the names and find information about these men on the units memorial wall page.
Dedication For 114th Members Killed In Action
Monument Dedicated to Fallen Friends
By Tony Britt Cordele Dispatch
LAKE BLACKSHEAR — The importance of the Memorial Day holiday is often taken for granted.
Though several people see the holiday as just another break from work, a group of former GIs honored their fallen friends, brothers and loved ones at a memorial dedication Saturday.
The dedication ceremony was held at the Georgia Veterans’ Memorial State Park exhibit area and served as an opportunity for members of the 114th Aviation Company to honor their 70 friends who died in the Vietnam War.
During the ceremony, which featured military speakers from around the country a red granite memorial was unveiled in honor of the 70 men who died in Vietnam.
"Everything went perfect, couldn’t have been any better," said Tom Nesbitt, who was instrumental in having the monument placed at the park. "We thought we were going to get into a tight spot at the last minute and we were about five minutes late getting started, but everything came together. I think the Buglers and the Color Guard were the highlights of the ceremony. I think we had 35 people here from the 114th."
As Chaplin Lt. Col. Charles Smith of the Dodge County JROTC program read the names of the 70 soldiers which had been inscribed in the memorial, a lone bagpiper played Amazing Grace.
Several audience members, many with tears dropping from their eyes, saluted and stood at attention during this solemn portion of the program.
As the a pair of buglers followed and played Taps in the background, a red-poppy Wreath was placed next to the new memorial by Clyde Scott and Ginger Shannon, wife of Ken Shannon who's name is on the memorial stone. Then Warner Robins American Legion post’s color guard unit fired a seven gun salute.
Shortly after the ceremony, several audience members gathered around the new memorial looking for familiar names and offered their fallen loved ones a salute.
Bob Bilshausen, a member of the 114th Association, came from Chicago, Ill., to attend the memorial dedication. "Today’s ceremony was very moving and fantastic," he said. "I wouldn’t have missed it."
"Tom Nesbitt did a heck of a job putting everything together," said Andy Anderson, a member of the 114th from Deland, Fla. "I just really appreciate it. Some of my friends names are etched on that memorial stone. I lost a lot of friends over there in Vietnam."
Nesbitt started the push to get a monument for the 114th Vietnam veterans at the park several years ago and worked until he and his friends made the monument a reality.
Saturday, Nesbitt and his friends from Pennsylvania, Florida, Mississippi, Illinois, Georgia, and Texas, came together to pay homage to their fallen friends.
"I think the people that were here are going to appreciate Veterans more," Nesbitt said. "After this ceremony, I think the people, who were here will have a better understanding of why they are able to walk around free and not take it for granted... like most people tend to do."
This monument is the first monument to any specific group of veterans in Georgia Veterans’ Memorial State Park.
"We can’t do enough for those guys," Nesbitt said of the 70 men from his company that lost their lives during the war. "They’re gone. They died young and they won’t ever have a family. This is just a little something, but we’ll keep on remembering them.”
2,096 Army Medics and Navy Corpsmen Are Listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
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Robert Arnold Whitney was known as Robert Arnold Miller in his hometown of Kennewick WA. He was a 1966 graduate of Kennewick High School where he was a leading wrestler. During his senior year at Kennewick he compiled a 23-0 record in the 130 pound weight division, finishing 2nd in the State Finals.
Robert Arnold Whitney/Robert Arnold Miller. Cindi Grant, from West Richland, and Bruce Swander helped sort out Robert Arnold Whitney Miller. According to Robert's enlistment papers he was the son of Charles L. Whitney of Warden WA and Doris M. Miller of Kennewick WA. The Funeral Home records list him as Robert A. Whitney Miller. His headstone says simple Robert Arnold Miller. This information has been sent to the committee for the Vietnam Memorial Wall, Washington D.C. and will be posted to other Wall internet websites. Again thank you Cindi for the picture and the helping hand.)
2 Tri-City GIS Killed In Recent Vietnam Fights. Two more Tri-City servicemen have been killed in Vietnam--bringing to 16 the number of local men killed in the conflict. Latest casualties are Spec. Robert A. Miller, 21, of 202 E. First Place, Kennewick, and Pvt. Steven Young, formerly of 1539 Thayer Drive, Richland. Miller, killed Saturday (25 May 1968), was home on leave six days earlier. He was assigned to the 199th Light Infantry Brigade near Saigon. He was reported killed by a booby trap while on a combat mission in the jungles near Saigon. Young's mother, Maxine Curry, moved to Yakima yesterday, three days after receiving notification of her son's death. Young was killed 17 May (1968) while on a military operation at Quang Nam, South Vietnam. A 1966 graduate of Kennewick High School, Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Miller, was drafted by the Army in April 1967 and sent to Vietnam in October. He was a leading wrestler and during his senior year at Kennewick compiled a 23-0 record in the 130 pound weight division before loosing in the state finals. While home last week, Miller became engaged to his high school sweetheart, Kathy Wright, also of Kennewick. His father said Miller was hit by a mortar shell fragments in March, but was back in action the next day. During training, Miller received several trophies for his high scores in physical combat proficiency tests including a perfect 500 in leadership school at Fort Polk LA. The family said there will be a full military funeral. Three of his former wrestling coaches will serve as pallbearers. Other survivors are two brothers, Charles and Mike; sister Charlene, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Albright, Ephrata. (Tri-Cities Herald, Pasco WA, 27 May 1968)
Robert A. Miller Services for Spec.4, Robert A. Miller, 21, who died 25 May (1968), in Vietnam, will be Friday at 10 am. at Mueller's Funeral Home, Kennewick. Virgil G. Iverson, Army Chaplain, will officiate. Military graveside services will follow at Desert Lawn Memorial Park. He was born 20 Jan 1947 at Mabton. Survivors include his parents; brothers, Charles, a student at the University of Washington, and Mike, Kennewick; a sister Charlene, Kennewick, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Albright, Bridgeport. Contributions, in lieu of flowers, may be made to the Kennewick High School wrestling memorial fund, in care of Ron Snow. (Tri-Cities Herald, Pasco WA, June 1968)
Famlies Accept Posthumous Medals A Seattle housewife yesterday accepted decorations earned by her husband, Pfc. Leonard O. Graves, who died of combat wounds in Vietnam last September. Relatives of three other Washington servicemen also received decorations presented by Col. Harold N. Gilbert, Fort Lewis adjutant general at the post. Mrs. Kramer M. Graves, 959 1/2 20th Ave., received the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, and Purple Heart earned by her husband. Graves, of the 25th Infantry Division, raced through Intense enemy fire to rescue another soldier. Mrs. Betty L. Scavella,Tacoma received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart earned by her husband, Master Sgt. Allan N. Scavella. The Bronze Star and Purple Heart were presented to Mrs. Doris Miller, Kennewick, for her son, Spec. 4. Robert A. Whitney. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Petersen, Buckley, accepted the Bronze Star won by their son, Pfc. Harry A. Petersen. Earlier the Distinguished Service Cross was presented to Staff Sgt. William J. Lines, Tacoma, who led a volunteer platoon to aid another involved in a fierce firefight with Viet Cong. Lines, whose wife is the former Patricia Ross of Mercer Island, is now assigned to Company A., 4th Battalion.1st Brigade, at Fort Lewis. (Times, Seattle WA, 7 May 1969)
Booby Trap Kills Former Warden Youth Spec. 4 Robert A. Whitney, 21, a former warden resident, was killed last. week by a Viet Cong booby trap while serving with the Army in Vietnam, relatives have reported. The young man's uncle, Marvin Whitney of Moses Lake, said he was a member of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade. Whitney attended school in Warden from 1959 to 1961 and was a graduate of the High school in Kennewick where he was an outstanding wrestler. He had been in the Army for slightly more than a year. Besides his father and stepmother in Warden, Whitney is survived by his mother, Mrs. Doris Miller of Kennewick; his grandmother, Mrs. Clarence Albright of Brewster; two brothers, Charles Jr. at the University of Washington and Ed, Kennewick, a sister, Charlene of Kennewick; two stepbrothers, Pfc. Lawrence Walsh with the Army in Vietnam and John Graham of Warden; two stepsisters, Mrs. Cheryle Withers and George Anne Walsh of Warden. Other local relatives include four uncles, Clyde and Lloyd Whitney of Warden; Ivan Whitney of Othello and Marvin Whitney of Moses Lake; and aunt, Mrs. Lawrence (Ruth) Berg of Warden. Funeral services will be held at Kennewick. Arrangements are pending the arrival of the body from Vietnam. Columbia Basin Daily Herald, Moses Lake WA, 30 May 1969)
Second Lieutenant 3RD FORCE RECON CO, 3RD RECON BN, 3RD MARDIV United States Marine Corps 06 July 1945 - 17 February 1968 Groton, NY Panel 39E Line 071
"Harbor Queen" (3-C-1) patrol members. 1968. (Top row, L-R): Al Moore, Jerry Beasley. (Bottom row): Unk, Fred Ostrom, Robert Jenkins, Larry Harrod, Randy Rhoads.
Robert Henry Jenkins, Jr
PFC Robert Jenkins, left (KIA 3-5-69) Daniel Tirado, right (KIA 5-7-69)
28 Sep 2004
I went to the cemetery where you were buried and saw that a tall standing tree was at the foot of your grave. It appears that it was planted several years ago, possibly even when you were buried. It is obvious that your gravesite is well taken care of, and I wondered if your family was responsible for the upkeep.
I was not even born when you died but I am amazed with what you did in Vietnam at such a young age. Your actions are certainly a testament to your character and what kind of man you were. God bless you and those that take care of your gravesite.
Peace has come. Now you can truly sleep my son. The muddy field where you were laid Flag-draped, will now be green. Redbud and cherry blossoms can be seen Soon in bloom above your head. Arlington's Eternal Flame Flickers across granite rows To illuminate your name; And then beneath it (with lightning's calm) Strikes in black the word
James Clinton Ward
Vietnam War memorial in Phonsavan, Laos
South of Phonosavan are two major war memorials set 1 km apart on separate hill tops. Both are set in the style of traditional Laos stupas (each containing the bones of the dead) although one is representative of the Vietnamese and the other the Laos lives lost. Inscribed on the Lao monument is the slogan ‘The nation remembers your sacrifice’, erected in 1998 a nearby slab of granite has the names of all the soldiers lost inscribed on its surface. The Vietnamese war memorial has the inscription ‘Lao-Vietnamese solidarity and generosity forever’. Both memorials enjoy sprawling views of the countryside and are especially attractive at sunset.
War memorial shows North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao soldiers attacking during the Vietnam War.
Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội) pronunciation (help·info), estimated population 3,398,889 (2008), is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam. It was eclipsed by Huế during the Nguyen Dynasty as the capital of Vietnam, but Hanoi served as the capital of French Indochina from 1902 to 1954. From 1954 to 1976, it was the capital of North Vietnam.
The city is located on the right bank of the Red River. Hanoi is located at 21°2′N105°51′E / 21.033°N 105.85°E / 21.033; 105.85Coordinates: 21°2′N105°51′E / 21.033°N 105.85°E / 21.033; 105.85, 1,760 km (1,090 mi) north of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly called Saigon.
October 2010 will officially mark 1000 years of the establishment of the city. On this occasion, Hanoi has been named as one of the world's "Top Destinations 2010.
Ha Long Bay
Ha Long Bay (literally: Bay of Descending Dragons; Vietnamese: Vịnh Hạ Long) is the most well-known touristic destination in Viet Nam, and this is for good reason. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Quảng Ninh province. If you've focused your trip on the extraordinary cities and monuments of urban Vietnam, a visit to Ha Long Bay leaves no doubt that Vietnam also has some of the most beautiful natural sceneries worldwide.
The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. The Ha Long bay, dotted with some 2000 limestone islets rising from emerald waters, is the best known natural wonder of Viet Nam. The islands were formed from limestone sediments deposited at the bottom of an ancient ocean. As the seas rose and fell over millennia, the soft limestone was easily shaped into the towering monoliths (geologists call them karst formations) as we see today. The forces of erosion also riddled the islands with caves, more than 20 of which are open to tourists. Because of their precipitous nature, most of the islands are uninhabited and unaffected by a human presence. The outstanding scenic beauty is complemented by its great biological interest. The islands feature endless numbers of beaches, grottoes, and caves. The bay is a sea islands in tropical wet with 2 seasons: hot and moist summer, dry and cold winter. Average temperature is from 15°C- 25°C. Annual rainfall is around 2000mm.
In the shallow waters of the bay, there are more than 200 species of fish and 450 different kinds of molluscs. Often the shape of an island determines its name, such as Voi Islet (elephant), Ga Choi Islet (fighting cock), and Mai Nha Islet (roof). Birds and animals, including antelopes, monkeys, and iguanas, also live on some of the islands. Cat Ba Island is a UN Biosphere Reserve and home to many rare species.
Archaeological evidence reveals that humans have settled near Ha Long Bay since at least 3,000 B.C. The bay is no stranger to conflict. In 1288 General Tran Hung Dao stopped Mongol ships from sailing up the nearby Bach Dang River by placing steel-tipped wooden stakes at high tide, sinking the Mongol fleet. Today General Tran Hung Dao (Hung Dao Vuong) is revered throughout Vietnam. You can visit the Dau Go (Cave of the Wooden Sticks), where legend says the wooden sticks that sank the Mongol fleet were stored.