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“This directly undermines the memory and sacrifice of the 58,220 US soldiers and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers who died in defense of freedom and democracy during the Vietnam War.”
This is the first presidential election in which Orange County's Vietnamese community has been mostly in the same congressional district. That was an intentional decision by California's ...
It marked the end of the Vietnam War. Nearly 50 years later, the day is still observed by those who fled Vietnam or whose family members did. In Orange County's Little Saigon, home to one of the ...
The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were to leave South Vietnam by March 29. As an inducement for Thieu's government to sign the agreement, Nixon had promised that the U.S. would provide financial and limited military support (in the form of air strikes) so that the ...
The heart of Little Saigon, traditionally considered the center of overseas Vietnamese culture in the US. Located in Orange County, California. The mayor of the city, Chi Charlie Nguyen, is Vietnamese-American. Fountain Valley, California: 20.7: 11,747: Part of Little Saigon in Orange County, California Stanton, California: 16.9: 6,526
A Vietnam War veteran throwing his medal at the US Capitol An anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington D.C., on April 24, 1971 A rally in support of the Vietnamese people at the Moskvitch factory in 1973. April 23 – Vietnam veterans threw away over 700 medals on the West Steps of the Capitol building. The next day, anti-war organizers claimed ...
The race in California's battleground 45th Congressional District is spotlighting what it means to be a Vietnamese American voter in a conservative enclave.
April 30 is widely recognized as the painful anniversary of the 1975 fall of Saigon, a day that marks the emotional closing chapter of the Vietnam War. Known in the Vietnamese community as ...