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Check out the new photos.  We went to Hung King Temple and had lunch with the officers and Commander of Military Region 2.  The Hung King Temple is a complex of a museum and a hike up a mountain with three main stops which are temples commemorating the origins of the Vietnamese people.  We met some Vietnamese veterans, that is Vietnamese veterans from the “American War”.  The one gentlemen I met was a little taken back when he saw the US flag on my shoulder, he asked where I was from and I told him I was an American.  He stepped back, looked at me, I wasn’t sure what he was going to do, then he smiled shook my hand and said “quá kḥứ rồi ” meaning, it is in the past, meaning let’s move on to the future, forget the past.  After the hike up and down the mountain we went to the Military Headquarters for Region 2  close to the Hung King Temple.  The Hung King Temple is located on Nghia Linh Mountain, Hy Lang commune, Phong Chau district, Phu Tho province, approximately 100 kilometers northwest of Hanoi.