The Moroccans who fought for France and settled in Vietnam

Mzid Ben Ali, or "Mohammed" as Binh calls him, was one of tens of thousands of North Africans who served in the French army as it battled to maintain its colonial rule of Indochina. He fought for France against the Viet Minh independence movement in the 1950s, before leaving the military -- as either a defector or a captive -- and making a life for himself in Vietnam. "It's very emotional for me," says Binh, 64, holding the tombstone. There was no funeral when his father died in 1968, as the war with the United States was in full swing...