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War still resonates with local Vietnamese-American family on 40th anniversary
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Hoang Nguyen works at the cash register while Tina Tran and Cam Cao purchase items Wednesday at Vietnamese Market and Oriental Food Store on Atlanta Highway. Born to Vietnamese parents in the United States after the Vietnam War, Nguyen has never been told much about what happened to his family during that violent time. - photo by Erin O. Smith
It didn’t even register to Hoang Nguyen that today marks the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Born to Vietnamese parents in the United States after the war, Hoang, 36, has never been told much about what happened to his family during that violent and tumultuous time. “The kids born over here, they don’t know nothing,” said his father, Cung.