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 »

This is a story that starts in Saigon, Vietnam in 1975. Millions of people lost their country, their flag, their freedom of speech, their freedom of religion, their right to vote in fair elections, the right to protest or even complain, their right to privacy and many other rights all free people take for granted. My wife voted for the first time last November. And they were not allowed to leave their new communist ruled country: Vietnam. Attempts to depart Vietnam became punishable by jail time. Army soldiers and just about everyone else that helped the American were sent to re-education. Some spent six years in this brainwashing prison. Some as many as 12. Many died during “re-education.” by John E. Carey, March 4 2007   more »