Posted on 10/15/2020 4:50:57 AM PDT by PghBaldy
During the summer of 2012, I had the opportunity, together with other dignitaries, to visit and meet with Queen Elizabeth II as she hosted the Olympic Games in London, England. As I was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace, she commented to me on memories of her sole visit to Guam in 1975. As I was a middle schooler at the time, I really had no recollection of her visit to my island home.
Queen Elizabeth had one, stark memory of that visit to Guam. She and Prince Philip were witnesses to the tragedy of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees being housed in camps put up by the U.S. military as they fled their home nation, as it fell to conquering communist forces from North Vietnam. The refugees were intensely loyal to the United States and the Western democracies. Because most of them had either worked for the U.S. military or were members of the South Vietnamese military and government, staying in South Vietnam would have meant being sent to work camps, prison or even a death sentence. About 112,000 Vietnamese refugees were sheltered on Guam in 1975. Most of them were relocated and settled in mainland America. Some stayed and made Guam their home.
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If your wife goes to a nail salon run by Vietnamese emigres, and many do, make sure they know this about Biden.
I was taken aback by the fact the kid loved pheasant hunting and was an avid hunter.......classic stereotypical attitude on my part.
btt
In the 1970s, our church sponsored Vietnamese refugees, and my dad hired some.
As I remind my kids and grandkids, just because it isn't taught in school anymore does not mean that it didn't happen, or that it wasn't tragic.
The fall of South Vietnam was, and remains, one of the major blots on the US political system. It started the political lives of many politicians, and it seems that those politicians are still with us today.
Unlike the boat refugees and the Vietnamese that were abandoned in Southeast Asia.
The Vietnamese are one group of immigrants who seem to understand assimilation.
Many do own nail salons, and they make efforts to ”Americanize”. The techs take on easy to pronounce English names, they learn our language, and they are not mooching off of the taxpayers.
I find it truly endearing to go to the salon and say hello to ”Anthony, David, Vivian, et al.”
Henry and Pam own the shop my wife goes to.
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