![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4eNVmPRHKTrHqE9SKpkawmBA267fE0C_ydRNelDPa7XkzL545A-Xbr4m5UjnO3AEA6oNsyt-_KHT8KcC5K2Wcx-0I-K-pLcYiMeM2_u14B5Wy60PdNy9ExnuQI_u2UPexWPvshKW32G4/s200/Vietnam+Green+Berets.jpg)
Vietnam has certainly has seen its share of berets going by; in green, red, khaki and black, with badges depicting daggers, skulls and parachutes on wings, from France, the United States, Australia, New Zealand…
Pictures of Green Berets and a French soldier during the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUYzupk5QfuWiVcPyRXbvCxE69PmMPUgS2MNtsEYYNsINWHy4ygy3BPesV9z8jbUzRGHViw_SlcmEjevtwkrD0p0lxzVd2lWRyJ2ryBG5H7RlFHkmtjT9ONZbqZHwVQY9WHJ8hr1fvbg/s200/Vietnam+French+Dien+Bien+Phu.jpg)
Still, the civilian black Basque beret survived, introduced to Indo-Chine by the French and still worn proudly these days.
Like the poet Duy Viet does, from the Stop and Go Café in Dalat, a place where Vietnamese and international poets alike come together to find peace and quietness from the hustle and bustle of Saigon and Hanoi,
or like this gentleman in
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixxXbo8fHYLcDkiOcfY6UNkBYT3pnlG9XnnS2OLByjTK0aqDgfeGDTKwIbB2fWikYpPAlYctcDO5mFlI7ceY5QfijyyElTa2vkxbXYPW2oGoEpUbB0RW9wTcCxRJ5ItbtAMaBpdvmDAXM/s200/Wearing+the+French+beret,+is+only+one+of+the+influences+left+from+the+colonial+period+among+the+older+generations,+Hanoi.+Vietnam.jpg)