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saigon

Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.
Books
Read this brilliant new poet’s take on the US immigrant experience
North Vietnamese troops and Saigon residents eye each other on the streets of the city on April 30th, 1975, the day the city fell to the government in Hanoi.
Conflict
A journalist remembers the ‘quite eerie’ calm after the fall of Saigon