http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/22/travel/cnngo-travel-ho-chi-minh-city-tunnels/index.html
In Ho Chi Minh City, most visitors drive out of town to visit the Cu Chi tunnels. Below them, there's a subterranean network that housed many Vietnamese fighters during the war. In an alleyway in District 10 is a former family home that used to be "Secret Cellar B." The family that lived there was charged by Vietnamese forces to house a printing press to produce propaganda material. Things that would happen is soldiers would have a transistor radio in the tunnels and they'd be transcribing news of what was happening in the north. To ventilate the tiny space, another tunnel was dug leading up to a well, creating a flow of air to those stationed inside. Excavated between February and May 1952, Secret Cellar B was in operation until 1957 when it was decommissioned because of security concerns and then filled with soil in 1959 to avoid detection.
This relates to APUSH because this was during the Vietnam war and also it's pretty cool how this historic landmark is being toured because many people will be able to learn more. They're getting to understand not only the facts of the war, but the perspectives of the soldiers and how they lived/what people were going through at the time.
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