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Re: Trail to Become Tourist Attraction
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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)
Date: November 19, 2002
"VIETNAM plans to turn the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the famous Communist supply line during the Vietnam war, into a tourist attraction.
Authorities in Quang Tri province plan to organise tours to areas near the trail where fierce fighting took place.
Nguyen Thi Mai, director of Quang Tri provincial Trade and Tourism Service, said it planned to restore communications and vehicle repair stations and front-line surgery units built by communist soldiers along the trail.
The trail, which began as a simple footpath over the Truong Son mountains in 1959, grew to more than 16,000 miles of paths by the time the war ended in 1975, despite attacks by US planes.
Named after Vietnam’s revolutionary hero, it was a vital route from the communist north to the south."
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