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The things they’ll carry: San Jose’s Vietnamese on their next 50 years

Saigon lives on in the half-century legacy of the refugee community that built and flavored Silicon Valley

By | jjung@bayareanewsgroup.com
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From left, Color guard Văn Tuấn, former Vietnamese marine, Trần Song Nguyên, former member of the Biệt Động Quân Vietnamese special forces and Dương Hạ Phong, former Vietnamese marine carried the flag of South Vietnam past veterans of the Republic of Vietnam armed forces (left) and the Associates of Vietnam Veterans of America (right). The ceremony remembering Black April, the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, was held at the James P. McEntee, Sr. Plaza in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 7, 2025. Santa Clara County raised the Vietnamese Heritage and Freedom Flag on their government center pole for the first time and then lowered it to half mast, where it will fly all month long in memoriam. About 100 people attended the event. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
From left, Color guard Văn Tuấn, former Vietnamese marine, Trần Song Nguyên, former member of the Biệt Động Quân Vietnamese special forces and Dương Hạ Phong, former Vietnamese marine carried the flag of South Vietnam past veterans of the Republic of Vietnam armed forces (left) and the Associates of Vietnam Veterans of America (right). The ceremony remembering Black April, the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, was held at the James P. McEntee, Sr. Plaza in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 7, 2025. Santa Clara County raised the Vietnamese Heritage and Freedom Flag on their government center pole for the first time and then lowered it to half mast, where it will fly all month long in memoriam. About 100 people attended the event. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Saigon lives on in the half-century legacy of the refugee community that built and flavored Silicon Valley.

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