Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 29, 2021

At least drag the main and oogle the beautiful girls! Only good thing about VietNam!

“Saigon Bloody Mary”45ml vodka60ml nuoc cham dressing2 slices of lime Half-teaspoon chilli salt Fresh ground pepper Vietnamese mint leaves Tomato juiceLime, mint leaves, chilli and pepper for garni

Add vodka and dressing to tall glass, add a grind of pepper and salt with the Vietnamese mint. Add 2 slices of lime and ice to top. Top with tomato juice. Garnish with Vietnamese mint leaves, a round of lime, a grind of pepper and a chilli cut in half.

You could see the “old war venues”—and be grateful you’re still alive!!

A waitress came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie, and she said…

Bloody Marys…yummm!

It’s like they never left.

As I recall, BD and Phred got lost in the jungle and bonded over a case of Schlitz back in the day. George found them.

In the bar you’re safe from any Agent Orange residue that might still be hanging around…

“But what about my unresolved traumas?”

Totally not true.

Only if they’re also having Pho and spring rolls…

“You know an old con always goes back to look at the piece of sidewalk he slipped on.” —Raymond Chandler, “Goldfish”

better to relive the past with bloody Marys than to relive the bloody past touring the countryside.

Nostalgia is over-rated.

I’ll pass on the Bloody Marys, but I would join you for a pitcher of margaritas. I rode a submarine during that fiasco.

It would indeed be creepy to stroll through the same terrain and see how arbitrarily death and destruction are dealt. Now it’s fine, now it’s not.

People ask me to go back to Vietnam, to visit.

I reply, “Why? I never left.”