Fall of Saigon

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Vietnamese Americans in Boston mark the day their country ceased to exist

Culture

Vietnam is in the midst of a four-day holiday. Their jubilant festivities mark the reunification of North and South Vietnam. But in Boston’s Vietnamese community, the “Fall of Saigon” is a day of collective mourning.

North Vietnamese troops and Saigon residents eye each other on the streets of the city on April 30th, 1975, the day the city fell to the government in Hanoi.

A journalist remembers the ‘quite eerie’ calm after the fall of Saigon

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Why you won’t see Ho Chi Minh City appear in this newspaper in California

Media
Several dozen Vietnamese demonstrators protest against what they described as human rights violations in the former South Vietnam on April 30, 1998 at city hall in Orlando, Florida.

Forty years after Vietnam, a refugee relives his journey from Saigon to San Francisco

Conflict

California professor leading project to get Vietnamese immigrant to tell their own story

Vietnamese Immigrants Remember Life in the Old Country

Arts, Culture & Media

In California, a group of college students has launched an oral storytelling project to draw out how Vietnamese immigrants remember life back home. Many of them arrived here after the Vietnam War.