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May 4 - 10, 2000
Volume 21,
No. 36

A Generation Later

It is one of the most tragic wars in America’s history. Last Sunday, 25 years after the end of the Vietnam war, Americans of different ethnicities, lifestyles and views converged in heart and soul to remember fallen heroes, fallen hopes and a fallen country.

Veterans, anti-war activists, widows, survivors, emigrés, and a new generation of U.S.-born Vietnamese Americans collectively remembered the war that killed 58,000 American GIs and 1 million Vietnamese, divided a people, and drove more than 2 million to flee a country that was once theirs.

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At right: Lily Vo, 8, surveys a collection of images capturing decades of Vietnamese American history.
















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