The customary rap on American holidays is that they’ve become
increasingly commercial endeavors, sometimes to the exclusion of
pretty much everything else. It’s impossible to disagree, but for
a little perspective, consider the Thanksgiving Day golf outing I
played in at the Vietnam Golf & Country Club, in outlying Ho
Chi Minh City. It was all business. Not the golf itself, which was
a delightful affair with about 40 participants, mos...
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