Posted on 11/04/2004 10:43:38 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
First Vietnamese-American lawmaker object of pride, threats
WESTMINSTER, Calif. - The first order of business for Van Tran, following his election night success, was a trip to a Vietnam War memorial. With a bodyguard.
That's politics in Southern California's Little Saigon, where the first Vietnamese-American elected to a state legislature - and the nation's highest-ranking Vietnamese-American elected official - is an object of community pride and death threats.
Tran said he has been told by two people he considers reliable that Vietnamese communists have targeted him for assassination because of his new political status and past activism against the regime that rules the homeland his family fled 30 years ago.
It's not the first time he's gotten threats: A year ago, he felt compelled to get a concealed weapons permit and is nearly always armed when he's in public.
"Everyone is proud of him," said Ngo Ky, a self-described activist in Garden Grove. "He doesn't belong to his family anymore. He belongs to the community."
"I'm a product of the Vietnam War as much as John Kerry and George Bush," he said at the memorial, where he also burned sticks of incense as a tribute to the fallen U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers who died in the war.
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Outstanding news item. Thanks!!
NEVER!
BTTT!
Freedom Bump!
Communism is still Evil
and
Communists still roam.
May all people living enslaved
one day live free.
Oh this IS good news!
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re: Post 27 Great photo!
Congrats on being part of this
historic moment!
Definitely an asset.
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GARDEN GROVE snub irks HANOI
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1135666/posts
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Great thread. We have a few people who like to claim that "immigrants vote their stomachs" but it's very obvious from this election that many immigrants vote their principles...and some people simply speak their spleen.
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Free Flag of Vietnam & now Garden Grove Mayor-Elect BILL DALTON (Photo)
http://www.rfvn.com/picture/BieuTinh_NKK_02_15_04/BieuTinh_Nguyen_C_Ky_02_15_04_0123.JPG
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There are two things about pho that bug me. Being a big tonkotsu ramen man, I hate thin soup, and the herb placed in the pho doesnt make it any better.
The other thing is that pho is pronounced like a question. Vietnamese pronunciation is harder than Chinese pronunciation.
Hey, right next door to my home town. I passed by his posters on my way to the local grocery store. Congrats, Mr. Tran!
Out here in Maryland there is a pho restaurant where a picture of president bush hangs on the wall and the 21" tv perched high close to the ceiling is eternally tuned in to the fox news channel.
just my kind of dream eating establishment.
IMHO, more Freepers, especially those with limited contact or knowledge of Asia or Asians, should be introduced to this culture in America. They are really our true conservative American allies and their food is WONDERFUL!!
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...Those of us whose lives have been directly touched...
...like mine has...
...by the Freedom-loving spirit of Vietnamese-Americans...
...in a new time of war...
...with our own Freedom now at stake here at home...
...have been truly blessed.
Signed:
"ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer of Little Saigon
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm (Photos)
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"And in the End...
the LOVE you take...
is equal to...
the LOVE you make" - The Beatles
Little Saigon Cool to KERRY
http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4048
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