Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday recalled several images from his time as a young lieutenant in the Navy during the Vietnam War and remarked on the extraordinary changes that have taken place in the country since that time.

“I first came here in 1968 and I can still remember securing a short pass to come up from the Mekong Delta to then Saigon, and sitting on the deck of this hotel in a momentary pause from all the craziness,” he said at the Rex Hotel in Vietnam.

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