There are moments in history when a nation changes the course of another people’s destiny. For more than 2 million Vietnamese Americans, America became that place. Fifty-one years ago, many of us arrived with little more than hope. Some came with a small suitcase. Some came with nothing at all. […]
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A Name Without a Past: A Young Girl’s Journey from Saigon on April 30, 1975
It was April 30, 1975. Saigon was falling. Amid the chaos, smoke, and deafening sounds of helicopters overhead, a ten-year-old girl named Linh was swept away from everything she had ever known. Vũng Tàu, her hometown, was no longer a place of peace and ocean breezes—it had become a launchpad […]


