32-year-old Dinh Van Loc, a mattress maker from Vietnam, has an obsession with war relics from the US–Vietnam war. His house gives an impression of a battlefield, with a large collection of big and small material relating to the war. It took him years to collect this war treasure. It all started when Loc was a teenager, and got fascinated by his country’s war with the US, which ended 40 years ago. The war in Vietnam began in the year 1959, as a direct consequence of the division of the country into two smaller entities. The Geneva Accord in 1954 had bisected the country into a communist government in north and a democratic state in the south. North Vietnam was under Ho Chi Minh, whereas Ngo Dinh Diem ran the democratic Vietnam. A guerilla movement was launched by Ho in the North in a bid to unite the country under one communist government, which escalated with every passing day. American forces landed in South Vietnam to assist the South against the guerilla force in the South, aided by the North, known as the ‘Viet Cong’. This started a deadly conflict, which ended in 1975, though US forces had left the region two years earlier. By the end of the conflict, a total of 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, with 303,644 badly wounded. The total number of dead in the conflict has been estimated as 1.475 million, the Reuters reports. Loc’s obsession with the war zone memorabilia is not shared
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