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Article snippet: HANOI, Vietnam — Visiting Vietnam for the first time, President Trump arrived for an economic summit meeting on Friday in a country still grappling with the legacy of its war with the United States two generations ago — land mines and Agent Orange, and some three million people killed. Yet here in Vietnam, bitter memories of the war have dissipated — even if its poisonous inheritance has not. “Both Vietnam and America lost so many men and shared such terrible pain,” said Do Tuan, who won a medal for his bravery in fighting American soldiers during the war and is now a businessman in Hanoi. “The America of the past and the America of the present are different.” Mr. Trump, in fact, is more popular in Vietnam than he is back at home, according to a Pew survey that found that 58 percent of Vietnamese were confident in his ability to guide international affairs. The legacy of the Vietnam War — or the American War, as it is known here — is particularly resonant in Danang, the first stop on Mr. Trump’s two-day tour of Vietnam. The central Vietnamese city is hosting the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting, where Mr. Trump is expected to give a speech on the American vision for growth in the Asia-Pacific region. In 1965, the Ninth Marine Expeditionary Brigade, the first conventional American combat unit deployed in Vietnam, landed on a beach in Danang. Hundreds of thousands more troops would follow over the next few years alone. Danang’s prettiest stre... Link to the full article to read more