Symbol of reconciliation

Sunday, November 23, 2003

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- The USS Vandegrift weighed anchor Saturday and departed Ho Chi Minh City, ending the first port call by an American Navy ship to the communist country since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.

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