Memory begins with Ba Má, their images like photographs, their story like a movie, the kind found in the black box of a VHS tape, in an era when I have long ago gotten rid of my VCR.

More than 60% of Vietnam is under the age of 40, with no memory of what people here call the American war. For them, April 30 was a grand holiday, a day off from the office, not a haunting memory.

Filipinos' passion for traveling and exploring both the beauty of their own backyard and the allure of international ...