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From: Rick Shea
Date: 7/24/2004
Time: 1:37:40 PM
Remote Name: 24.18.62.231
No map, but I lived in Hotel 4 (Delta Hotel) DEC 67 to FEB 68 and you went down an ally behind the hotel. If you turned left and went 6 blocks you were at the Ekin Compound. If you turned right you went down a wide boulevard to that same fountain/circle. I seem to remember it had a little traffic director booth in the center for a policeman to direct traffic. When I was there it was never manned. Continuing straight took you to Can Tho Army Airfield on the left, then Can Tho Navy base on the right, the main gate of Bing Thuy Air Base on the left and finally the tiny "Binh Thuy Hilton" on the right. I lived at the Hilton after Tet when they had to move us all closer to the base. I was there from FEB to about MAY I think. Remember that dinky, one-lane bridge between town and the base with the tiny tin shack perched on the top were this incredibly old man's sole job was to rotate the sign to direct traffic?
RICK