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>> anthony: yes. last question. hypothetical. if the french or the japanese or the americans suddenly decided they wanted, for some reason, to come back, would he fight? >> anthony: oh! >> pham thach: that's different! >> anthony: different! >> pham thach: they're all welcome if they're tourists. ♪
>> pham thach: some people, they say that even when the parents are, you know, feeding the children, they need to touch their face and find the mouth and feed them. >> anthony: wow. children played here. but people also emerged from these tunnels to kill or cripple americans. to shoot them, to plant booby traps. and that's what they did. six years in darkness. and at the end of the war, the people of vinh moc emerged from that darkness. and what did they do?
What was that like? after living in darkness for so long, what was it like to come out and be able to spend the rest of his life in the sun? >> anthony: thank you! wow, ready. >> anthony: looks kind of like a mackerel. mmm, mmm, good. >> pham thach: good? >> anthony: yeah. >> pham thach: really?
Take to build? >> pham thach: 20 months digging. >> anthony: 20 months of digging. >> pham thach: by hand. >> anthony: by handle. >> pham thach: with shovels and hoes and all up, you know, the farmers, they dug with with their tools. >> anthony: right. >> pham thach: under the bombing. >> anthony: while the bombing's going on they're down here digging this out. >> pham thach: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: wow. how many children here? >> anthony: where, how did they play? >> anthony: so much of the time you're in total darkness? >> pham thach: yeah. >> anthony: you don't even see, you can't see your ...
>> anthony: i'm meeting my friends for a country lunch. what's the specialty of this restaurant? you're saying chicken in baked in clay? >> ha pham: yes. >> anthony: another friend from the past, ha pham, linh, of course, lan and a new friend from hue, thanh. a last meal, some good-byes. >> lan hue: i have a question. >> anthony: yeah. >> lan hue: what make you stay so long in hue? because normally, travelers, they come to hue, they stay only one or two nights and that's it. >> anthony: really? >> huong: what's your impressions about it? >> anthony: it's very -- it's really -- it's very laid b...