More than 1,500 demonstrators have shown up to protest an exhibit of contemporary portraits of Ho Chi Minh. Surprisingly, the colorful collages are the work of a former U.S. serviceman who says “we need to take a closer look” at the late North Vietnamese leader’s legacy. The growing throngs outside the Oakland, CA gallery – including many Vietnamese who fled N. Vietnam during the war and a strong showing of U.S. vets – have “called him a mass murderer. They’ve denounced him as a ‘lewd monster.’ But by the hundreds, demonstrators have made it clear that there’s one thing Ho Chi Minh shouldn’t be: art.” – CNN