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Ralph Coeckelberghs used to join movements protesting the war in Vietnam over half a decade ago, and since then he has been nurtured his love for the Southeast Asian country, VNA reported. Ralph Coeckelberghs and a propaganda poster in support of Vietnam. Photo: VNA In his home office in the suburbs of Brussels, the small souvenirs that Coeckelberghs brought back from his working trips abroad are elegantly displayed on bookshelves. Among them is a military hat with a five-pointed yellow star, a souvenir from his recent Vietnam visit in early March. There is also a clay buffalo and a lion statue made from a piece of coal he purchased in the northern Vietnam province of Quang Ninh over four decades ago. On the wall, he hangs propaganda posters against the Vietnam War. Fifty-five years ago, the 24-year-old student at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) was close with a group of Vietnamese patriotic students. Realising that the war in Vietnam was a preposterous one, he jo...