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The war. today he had another historic first. he was at the ministry of defense where he was greeted with warm smiles. this is the equivalent of the vietnamese pentagon in the capital of hanoi. he was received by the vietnamese minister of defense. the warm relation was evident on the smiles on the faces there. one chapter end and. first time since the war ended there was a significant exchange of war artifacts between the two sides. the vietnamese gave panetta several sets of letters including ones that had been stolen off the corpse of sergeant steve flaherty of colombia, south carolina, who...

Arrived essentially what is the vietnamese pentagon. it is called k-2,000. there were warm smiles from the minister of defense who met him there. if you have any question how controlled vietnam still is, the questions were very controlled. they were asked at the press conference. there was even a height requirement we're told for the soldiers who marched in the parade that met panetta. the exchange you referred to that was ununusual, for the first time since the end of the war there was an exchange of war artifacts. the vietnamese gave secretary panetta some letters that had been taken off the...

Port that may come in handy as the u.s. shifts focus to asia and 60% of the warship. >> i am feeling more confident on the strategy in place and we're focused on the pa of course. >> panetta brought a diary taken from a north vietnamese soldier killed in 1966. the vietnamese gave panetta letters written from g.i. from columbia, south carolina. steve flaherty killed in action in 1969. at the time, the vietcong took letters written to him by his family. the first significant exchange of war artifacts between the countries since normalization 17 years ago. >> the letters were used by the vietname...