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