Le Ba Hung (R) commander of the USS Lassen and a Vietnamese native of Hue (central Vietnam) walks down from his destroyer on port call in Vietnam's central coastal city of Da Nang on November 7, 2009. The commander who fled Vietnam as a five-year-old boat-people boy and was picked up by an US ship in 1975 has visited the country in command of a destroyer. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 weeks ago

Le Ba Hung (R) commander of the USS Lassen and a Vietnamese native of Hue (central Vietnam) walks down from his destroyer on port call in Vietnam's central coastal city of Da Nang on November 7, 2009. The commander who fled Vietnam as a five-year-old boat-people boy and was picked up by an US ship in 1975 has visited the country in command of a destroyer.

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