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Ho Chi Minh was the famous Vietnamese patriot who helped declare

independence for North Vietnam, but died before Vietnam was reunite as his country was divided at the 17th parallel due to the Geneva accords. Ho Chi Minh-in a brief summarywas a mysterious man, he traveled around the world took several aliases but eventually established himself as Nguyen the Patriot and then Ho Chi Minh. While many Americans believe that he was a bad man because he was communist the plain truth is that he was a nationalist above all and that Ho Chi Minh actually respected what the United States stands for. He demonstrated such respect by using a part of the U.S. declaration of independence in his own little declaration of Vietnam. All he wanted was independence for Vietnam after being colonized by the French for hundreds of years and the Japanese during World War 2. Against popular belief he tried to be a peaceful man, he went to the United States before the Vietnam war and to the French before the Indochina war to ask for peace and both the ambassadors of the United States and France would not listen to him. Even in a midpoint during the Vietnam war he wanted to secretly negotiate with the U.S. to stop the war but the U.S. was so sure of victory that they did want to stop. In the end the NFL and the Vietminh would come out on top. Ho Chi Minh is extremely venerated in Vietnam to this day, the largest city in Vietnam was actually renamed for him (Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh city). Uncle Ho, as the people of Vietnam call him, was the father of many communist parties around the world. He was so well respected in Vietnam because he took the image of an everyday peasant as he would join workers in the rice fields time to time and live a frugal life. He was a great speaker, great leader, but most of all a great model of persistence and after several centuries of colonization he was a key factor to the independence and unity that finally came to

Vietnam.