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The end of the Vietnam war: A turning point for protest music
The end of the Vietnam War marked a key moment for protest music, which had grown throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Artists ...
Minnesota state capitol event commemorates 50 years since end of Vietnam war
The local organization Vietnamese Community of Minnesota held a somber, but sunny event at the Minnesota state capitol to ...
Remembering the fall of Saigon
Fifty years ago, as the North Vietnamese army closed in on Saigon, U.S. forces, personnel and South Vietnamese civilians struggled to evacuate to American ships offshore. "Sunday Morning" talks with ...
From refugees to power brokers: How Little Saigon became a political force
OC’s Vietnamese American community has gone from registering voters outside supermarkets to electing one of its own to ...
Spokane nonprofit helping children of American servicemen immigrate to the U.S. from Vietnam
Miller was born in Vietnam on Dec. 25, 1967, to James A. Miller, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, and a Vietnamese mother. He grew up in the shadow of the war, and faced rampant discrimination ...
Finding connections, 50 years after the fall of Saigon
Her quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have loaded her ...
How the fall of Saigon shapes Vietnamese communities and bonds in San Diego, 50 years on
Lan Dang, the president of the Vietnamese Federation of San Diego, fled Vietnam with his family in 1994 when he was 11. He ...
For many in Denver’s Vietnamese community, the fall of Saigon 50 years ago brought a new beginning
The fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Fifty years later, metro Denver’s Vietnamese community looks ...
The things they’ll carry: San Jose’s Vietnamese on their next 50 years
Seven-year-old Vương Ngọc Lan ascended from a pit of fish guts and human waste inside a 50-foot dinghy to a 935-foot tanker ...
“Little Saigons” have blossomed across the U.S. in the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War
The Vietnamese community is spread out in clusters throughout Houston. The original Little Saigon popped up in the city’s ...
The legacy of a Vietnam War hero scrubbed from a government webpage remains strong in the southernmost part of Texas
While the contributions of US Marine Corps Sgt. Alfredo “Freddy” González may have been removed from some digital realms, ...
The children of the Vietnam War’s ‘Operation Babylift,’ now 50, reckon with their past
Operation Babylift was an effort led by the American military to rescue babies from Vietnamese orphanages ahead of the fall ...