He's learning to play a traditional Vietnamese instrument, which looks like a dulcimer on legs but it has only one string. The boy plucks the string and a undulating note swirls in the air. The happiness, the sadness. It is so sweet, like my mom's singing. American Grass A village in central Vietnam devasted by recent floods.
Some researchers believe the damage was worsened by defoliated hillsides.
Nguyin Thanh Son's family symbolizes a question mark that hangs over Vietnam. You can answer that question with your own eyes. Drive up a dirt road into Vietnam's central highlands with a Canadian named David Levy. The very lush jungle that existed here 30 years ago was wiped out by the Agent Orange herbicide. Levy helps run an environmental consulting firm based in Canada that works with the Vietnamese government on the Agent Orange problem.