... wave refugees. Little Saigons have sprung up in U.S cities including Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago, and San Jose. But the most renowned and officially recognized Little Saigon is located in Orange County California, considered the Vietnamese capital of the United States. On June 17, 1988 Governor George Deukmejian came to Westminster, CA and granted official designation to the area (Trinidad ... ). This was an emotional day for the Vietnamese community. Orange County's Little Saigon has became a major hub of the Vietnamese diaspora. It has grown to nearly 2000 commercial establishments, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and Special Forces, also known as the Green Berets, to work with and train the Army Republic of Vietnam. This is where aerial spraying of herbicides such as Agent Orange. "The notorious Agent Orange was just one of these chemical herbicides, but it received special attention because large plained bitterly, afterwards, of suffering serious health problems. Sprayed onto forests, it entered into ... ...

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... The Deer Hunter. Rambo, a former Green Beret and Medal of Honor winner, wanders into the Northwest town of Hope to find that his wartime buddy has died of an Agent Orange caner. The sheriff does not like vagabonds and places Rambo under arrest for vagrancy. Insulted and pushed by the sheriff's subordinates, Rambo, suffering from post-Vietnam shock, disables the men ... . Returning back from the war, he has no use for his war skills and roams around finding all his friends to be addicts or dead from committing suicides and Agent Orange. Kotcheff uses the mythical ideology that the United ...

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... the Ho Chi Minh trial making it difficult for the Vietcong to hide themselves within the vegetation for ambush. The operation grew as the Allied forces sprayed s chemical called "Agent Orange," within the forests of Vietnam to kill off much of the crops that fed the Vietcong men. When Operation Ranchhand ended nine years later, 1/7 of the nation's vegetation and forestry ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... freedom. If there was only one apple to choose from, you wouldn't feel restrained because that would be the only choice you have. But if there was an apple, an orange, and a banana, and you were asked to choose only one, thinking that you like all the three fruits, then you would feel restrained because you were aware of the other ... ...

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... Vietnam and should stop destroying the foliage by spraying extremely hazardous chemicals, which were also a threat to humans. The veterans had begun feeling the effects from such defoliators like agents orange, blue and white. The slow withdrawal of American forces was taking its toll on Americans still left in Vietnam. Soldiers were growing very afraid of all Vietnamese and thinking that ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School