Do you say Saigon instead of Ho Chi Minh City?? Shame on you, Saigon Nho Magazine. Jean Libby, author. UPDATE more on Army Street.
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Viet-Am Review
on Fri 31 Oct 2008 05:34 PM PDT |
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UPDATE AUGUST 2009: Saigon Nho Magazine continues to slander Nguyen Chi Thien. Don't you know we burn witches in America? SHAME ON YOU.
Saigon Nho Magazine wrote (in August 2008) that the address of the handwriting expert Marcel Matley does not exist.
The reason Mr. Matley uses the name Army Street on his stationery is because that is the historic name of the this famous street in San Francisco. It is now named Cesar Chavez Street.
Many old people, especially veterans, who were associated with World War I and World War II did not like the name change from Army Street by the city of San Francisco a few years ago. Just like many Vietnamese people did not like the name change from Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City.
Everyone who knows San Francisco knows that Army Street is the old name of Cesar Chavez Street.
Anytime anyone uses the name Saigon instead of Ho Chi Minh City will the procommunists say it does not exist? I think there is even a newspaper called Saigon News in Ho Chi Minh City. Do they exist?
If this is all Viet Weekly and Saigon Nho can find to criticize the handwriting test of the dissident Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chi Thien, who spent twenty-seven years in the Communist gulag, I suggest you go back to Ho Chi Minh City on the first available transportation. Or never use the name Saigon again.
www.vietamreview.net/handwriting.html
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more about Army Street, San Francisco UPDATE November 2, 2008
The derivation of the name change from Army Street is interesting. It was the historic name because there was (and still is) an army terminal at the end of it. It was first used as a shipping point in the San Francisco Bay to the interior of California by the Spanish colonial government in the 18th century. The U.S. military shipping use for which it is named came first during World War I, and in supplies for combatting the influenza epidemic of 1918. It was a terminal for shipping from the Hunter's Point shipyards with heavy use in World War II.
In 1997, when the name was changed, there was a ballot measure to approve the Board of Supervisors who wanted the name Cesar Chavez because they wanted an anti-war or anti-military perspective.
Actually, the labor hero Cesar Chavez was a veteran of World War II, an American born in Texas, but that is not the way he is perceived by liberals.
Changing the name was the politically correct choice.
Those who have lived there a long time (like the handwriting expert Marcel Matley) use the name Army Street in order to protest the antiwar liberals.
He is an elderly European American (born in Arizona in 1933) who is very anti-totalitarian.
