Michael Heaney places a memorial to his fallen comrades at the Vinh Thanh ambush site in Vietnam recently. (Video courtesy Michael Heaney)

Michael Heaney and Nguyen Thanh Lich, vice chairman of the Vinh Thanh Veterans Organization and the man Heaney calls “Many Wounds,” in front of the hill where the ambush took place. (Photographs courtesy Michael Heaney)

On a side trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Heaney documented the activity downtown.

A frieze in Plei Ku depicts the Vietnamese view of what they call the American War. In this piece, a single Vietnamese soldier is shown killing several American soldiers.