On anniversary of Saigon fall, shadows of another war; Thirty years hence, will Iraqis have settled into a similar peace troubled by lost brothers?(OPINION) From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: April 29, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Christian Science Publishing Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Tony Hopfinger

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Last month, I stood on a ridge overlooking a basin ravaged by napalm and Agent Orange, an old battlefield known by some Vietnamese as Death Valley. Hundreds of soldiers on both sides lost their lives around Duc Co in the Central Highlands during the Vietnam War.

I imagined the sky full of helicopters and fighter jets, artillery and M-60 rounds snapping from the former Ranger station on the hill behind me. I turned t...