Vietnam advanced to the finals in the U23 soccer tournament yesterday. Sai Gon went bonkers! This country is very proud, and they should be. It was a very intense match, and they clinched the victory with the final kick in a tiebreaking penalty round.
Had breakfast at the Sun Diner in Nashville, TN. Pretty good. It’s next door to the Johnny Cash Museum which was so packed I decided to just skip it and get on the road to Memphis.
Le Van Tam Park. Mạc Đĩnh Chi Cemetery was a large and prestigious French colonial cemetery in South Vietnam, located in the heart of former Saigon near the US Embassy, Saigon. The cemetery had a wooded, bucolic setting, surrounded by a tall concrete wall, with a gated entrance on Hai Ba Trung Street. In the 1980s the government declared the cemetery a corrupt reminder of the past. In 1983 the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee passed a resolution to abolish the cemetery, and ordered all remains to be exhumed and removed. It's now a park and playground for children with a kids pool and amusement park that hasn't been used in 20+ years.