It's Tuesday, September 12, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian world view.

Sometimes the world is explained in a photograph, sometimes huge questions are invoked by just

asking why a plane landed where it did.

Now we're going to be looking at how these things explain the world today and changes

in the world that would have been inconceivable just a matter of a generation ago, maybe just

even a decade ago.

First of all, the plane landing, where did the plane land?

Why does it matter?

The plane was Air Force One and it landed in Hanoi in the nation of Vietnam.

And it landed with the American President striking a deal with the Vietnamese government

concerning an ally ship, and the reason behind that is the threat of China.

But the history behind that is simply massive.

When you invoke the relationship between the United States and Vietnam, you are opening

the door to a conversation and a reconsideration of much of the history of the 20th century.

Much of the history of what became known as the Cold War, and one of the bitterest memories

in American history.

That makes the events over the last several days all the more important.

Historians will record that the Vietnam conflict or the Vietnam War lasted at least officially

from the first of November 1955 to the last day of April in 1975.

That was 19 years, five months, four weeks, and one day.

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