..Garden Grove votes Free South Vietnam Flag -IN-, who's next..?

www.OCRegister.com ^ | 3/1/2003 | Katherine Nguyen

[ALOHA RONNIE]

GARDEN GROVE now challenges the Rest of the Country to ..FOLLOW IT's LEAD.. on behalf of all Freedom-Loving Vietnamese-Americans nationwide.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Orange County Register ..March 12, 2003 Article Titled:

'GARDEN GROVE flag vote cheered - Little Saigon residents hail council's adoption of South Vietnamese banner'

Caption under Orange County Register Article Photo:

'JUBLIANT: Vietnam Veteran RONNIE GUYER, a former Garden Grove Resident ..is joyful after the Garden Grove City Council voted to make the South Vietnamese Flag the official flag of the Vietnamese-American Community. The Veteran addressed the council in support of the resolution.'

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[First_Salute]

Glad you caught this.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

'GARDEN GROVE flag vote cheered'

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=29507&section=LOCAL&subsection=LOCALyear=2003&month=3&day=12

[socal_parrot]

I grew up in West Garden Grove and remember a few years back when the Little Saigon community lay seige upon a communist sympathizer who refused to take the communist flag out of his store window.

I also shook George W. Bush's hand in Little Saigon in October of 2000.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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'..VIETNAM was a NOBLE CAUSE despite HILLARY RODHAM...'

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=314


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[CARepubGal]

That is awesome news. What about Westminster? That is a really interesting area esp Little Saigon. :-)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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Thanks for posting this!

[onedoug]

There was a big Vietnamese rally in Westminster last weekend; RVN flags. American flags. "WE SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH".

It gave this Vietnam vet chills. Such sadness and loss gives way to such inspiration. I am so glad and proud to have been part of that great enterprise. I believe we yet will have won the Vietnam War!

[onedoug]

Welcome Home, Always, OBM Brother!

[Joy Angela]

"There's a simple reason why we support having the South Vietnamese flag: It symbolizes freedom." - quote from article.


FREEDOM -- For All

Even in Iraq,
The Human Spirit Longs to Be FREE


***** ***** *****
Save the Children
from Saddam's Hell
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[Wilhelm Tell]

I remember years ago standing in a department store's check-out line. Ahead of me in the line were two Asian women--each woman had her children with her. One woman turned to the other and said, "Are you Vietnamese?" The other woman replied, "No, I'm Cambodian." With that, they started chatting about their children and exchanged tips about shopping, etc. It suddenly struck me that this is what America is about. Seldom have I felt more like an American than at that moment standing in a check-out line when I overheard those two foreign-born woman talk about their children.

[Joy Angela]

'JUBLIANT: Vietnam Veteran RONNIE GUYER


The reporter coined you to a tee!

[Consort]

[ALOHA RONNIE]

Flag of FREEDOM for a new Century

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...The Flame of FREEDOM burns brightly in the Vietnamese-Americans' Hearts of Garden Grove-Westminster =

...The Example for the rest of us to follow while OUR own FREEDOM at Home that is now at Risk.

The War has Come Home because we didn't win for FREEDOM in a land far away long, long ago.

...America's Vietnamese now point the way to FREEDOM's Victory.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Thank you for catching this Thread in Honor of Freedom Lovers everywhere.

[Bob J]

Way to go RONNIE!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Tuesday, March 13, 2003 =

The BI-COASTAL Night for Freedom:


Outside.. HILLARY's Washington, D.C. Mansion Fundraiser

http://community.webshots.com/photo/65188549/66260912yikSxd


Inside.. GARDEN GROVE, California City Council Chambers-

'Calif. city bans communist Vietnam flag at functions' (Reuters, March 12, 2003)

"A California city with a large Vietnamese population has voted to fly the flag of the defunct Republic of South Vietnam instead of existing communist Vietnam's at city functions, much to the dismay of state officials who want to expand ties with the Southest Asian nation.

The city council of Garden Grove in Orange County unaminously approved a resolution late Tuesday after hearing from about 200 impassioned supporters.

The measure instructs the Garden Grove school district to teach students that the yellow banner with three red stripes, which flew over South Vietnam until it was overrun by communist forces in 1975, is the symbol of Democratic Vietnam."

"A similiar proposal floated last month by the Virginia legislature drew angry protests from Hanoi, and was quashed by the U.S. State Department, which informed Virginia lawmakers that the president has sole power to conduct foreign policy."

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