by Anura Guruge
on September 3, 2021
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Vietnam had a large coastline & lots of boats. In marked contrast, Afghanistan is totally landlocked.
I will confess that this difference in ‘circumstances’ had not occurred to me. Not that I had given it much thought.
This, i.e., the lack of boats & open water, was pointed out to me by a Vietnam Vet, who actually had been over there during the Vietnam evacuation, last Saturday (at the ‘Folk Festival‘). Wow. A light bulb went on. How true. How germane. I was, of course, very familiar with the ‘Sea Bird’ (above) & knew the story behind the name. But, I had not given the ‘boat people’ much thought in the context of Afghanistan. Definitely is something to think about. How different things would have been if Afghans could have tried to leave the country in boats.
