1969, at the age of 79, some six years before his battalions surged into Saigon. Aspiring to bask in the reflected glory of his posthumous triumph, his heirs put his embalmed body on display in a hideous granite mausoleum copied from Lenin's tomb in Moscow. They violated his final wishes. In his will, he specified that his ashes be buried in urns on three hilltops in Vietnam, saying, "Not only is cremation good from the point of view of hygiene, but it also saves farmland" (Archer 239). Works CitedArcher, Jules. Ho Chi Minh: Legend of Hanoi. Crowell-Collier, 1971.Halberstam, David. Ho. New York, New York: Random House Publications, 1971.Nguyen, Van Canh. Vietnam under Communism. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, 1983. ...
