The annual commemoration of the Trung Sisters victory over the Chinese in 40 A.D. took place at the Unity Building (formerly G.I. Forum) in San Jose, California, on March 25. The ceremony, solemn as always, was described in both Vietnamese and English by the Overseas Vietnamese American Women's Association President Hoa B. Truong as seeking freedom and democracy in present-day Vietnam. She asked the guests to write to President Bush to bring pressure on the Vietnam government to release prisoners of conscience and the political offense of "speaking against the Socialist regime."   more »