Dan’s photo, below, reminded me that I have a photo myself to share — took it this morning, on my way to the office. Then I forgot about it. It’s just a little cellphone job. Many days, I walk by the U.N. building. And very often, there are human-rights protests: particularly by Tibetans, and also by Chinese. Today, I saw something I hadn’t seen before: a protest by Vietnamese. Vietnam fell out of America’s consciousness long ago. After about twelve years there, Americans had had more than enough of Vietnam, and probably never wanted to think about the place again. But, over the years, we couldn’t help hearing a little about boat people, reeducation camps, the especially savage persecution of religious people, and so on. Vietnam today is not the totalitarian horror it once was — or so I’m given to understand. But it’s still a cruel Communist state, where basic rights are denied. (I might have said, “It’s a Communist state, and therefore cruel.”) This morning, I was moved to see these gentle, religious people, pressing their case — which is a universal human one. Here is that photo. (I haven’t learned the trick of plopping a photo in the Corner itself.) The sign, in French, says, “Let’s pray for religious liberty and human rights in Vietnam.”