Dear San Jose Mercury News Editor,

Reference is made to Lisa Krieger's article on "Little Saigon."

How can Ms. Krieger be so ignorant?  How can she take a communist song to be the Republic of Vietnam national anthem when for 21 years, the Republic of Vietnam fought against communist "Aggression from the North" (Name of a White Paper by the U.S. State Department issued in 1960 and again in 1965).  She must have gotten her information regarding that anthem from a communist or communist sympathizer!  What a terrible shame!  The San Jose Mercury News owes an apology to 1.5 million Vietnamese Americans (one tenth of whom make their homes in San Jose) about this idiocy.

Nguyen Ngoc BICH
Chairman, National Congress of Vietnamese Americans
Tel: (703) 971-9178
10/12/08