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Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (left, shown here with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in June) will meet with President Obama while suppressing dissidents, bloggers and religious leaders. (AP Photo/Mark Ralston, Pool)

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**FILE** President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang and wife Mai Thi Hanh before the APEC leaders dinner in Honolulu on Nov. 12, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A caisson carries the casket of Army Spc. 5 John L. Burgess to its burial plot at Arlington National Cemetery, 43 years after he was killed in Vietnam. Among those at Tuesday’s ceremony was his 44-year-old son, who was not yet 2 when his father died. (Associated Press)

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Gary Witt, a two-time Purple Heart recipient for his service in Vietnam during 1968-69 with the Marines, remains at Monument Terrace following the Memorial Day observance to converse with people in the crowd Monday, May 27, 2013 in Lynchburg, Va. (AP Photo/News & Daily Advance, Sam O'Keefe)

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Gary Witt, a two-time Purple Heart recipient for his service in Vietnam during 1968-69 with the Marines, remains at Monument Terrace following the Memorial Day observance to converse with people in the crowd Monday, May 27, 2013 in Lynchburg, Va. (AP Photo/News & Daily Advance, Sam O'Keefe\)

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A member of the Joint Armed Forces Color Guard prepares for the presentation of the colors at a Mother's Day ceremony to honor four who sacrificed in Vietnam.

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**FILE** Nguyen Kim Hung cooks a rat at his home in Dinh Bang Village, Bac Ninh Province, Vietnam, on Jan. 30, 2008. (Associated Press)

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The American Legion has taken issue with the CBS reality show “The Amazing Race” showcasing the wreckage of a B-52 bomber shot down in Vietnam in 1972. The plane is now the centerpiece of a monument celebrating the “defeat of U.S. imperialists.” (American Legion)