Uncle who? Uncle Ho, as the locals refer to him though otherwise known as Ho Chi Minh. He was and still is in many ways the revered communist leader of Vietnam - immortalized in the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City after the Vietnam war ended in 1975. My friend Nicholas Le was just 9 years old at that time. He fled his country of Vietnam in a huey helicopter with a few family members and headed to the American aircraft carrier just off the coast - eventually making its way to the shores of southern California. It...
