Following the tour around, we went through the torture exhibits. It’s a stone replica of what once was,,, prisons, interrogation cells complete with photos and descriptions of torture techniques used on people, and a replica guillotine. Tools of the trade were on display- all of which made your guts curl up in your belly & think, “I’m glad that wasn’t me.”

It wasn’t obvious who was doing all the torturing. I’m not sure if they left that deliberately vague, or if it was just to represent what both sides were doing to each other, but the sense was that these things were being done to “patriots” of the Communist North. So- in so many words, even if the faces of the torturers were Vietnamese, Americans were behind this.

I’m not sure how we get credit for the guillotine, as King Louis 15th can firmly attest that this particular device has history in France. The tiger cages? I’m not sure America has a long history with that one either. Hardly a peep of gruesome acts done in prior era’s though… this museum focused entirely on America’s involvement, and the pain that we inflicted with our aggression. 95 years of colonialism gets a pass. So does 4 years of Japanese occupation during WW II. Good old selective memory.