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	Wikipedia: Vietnam War
		In 1955 the South Vietnamese monarchy was abolished and Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem became President of a new South Vietnamese republic.
		The program of covert GVN (South Vietnamese) operations was designed to impose "progressively escalating pressure" upon the North, and initiated on a small and essentially ineffective scale in February 1964, according to standard sources.
		The Vietnamese list over 200,000 of their own soldiers Missing in Action, and MIA soldiers from World War I and II continue to be unearthed in Europe.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/v/vi/vietnam_war.html (6522 words)

	National Congress of Vietnamese Americans
		The contributions and sacrifices of Asian Pacific Americans and Vietnamese Americans are being ignored.
		Vietnamese Americans have and will continue to sacrifice their lives to defend freedom and democracy.
		Vietnamese Americans fought in the Persian Gulf War and we are on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq.
	www.ncvaonline.org /archive/pr_100804_VietnameseFreedom.shtml (607 words)

	American Experience \| Vietnam Online \| The M.I.A. Issue \| PBS
		During the course of the Vietnamese conflict, hundreds of Americans were incarcerated in Vietnamese prisons in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and China.
		American prisoners sometimes died in captivity, from wounds sustained in combat, or at the hands of their captors.
		In Paris on January 27, 1973, American and Vietnamese representatives signed agreements for the cessation of hostilities and the repatriation of war prisoners.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/mia.html (1452 words)

	List of Vietnamese Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of notable Vietnamese Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture or society either politically, artistically, or scientifically.
		^ [15] "CUONG VU is a Vietnamese born jazz trumpeter"
		In 1978, when he was 24, he and other 87 Vietnamese people escaped from their native country by boat."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_Americans (702 words)

	Category:Vietnamese Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This category includes articles on people who are citizens of the United States and have Vietnamese ancestry, or those who have immigrated from Vietnam to the United States, or are self-identified as Vietnamese Americans.
		Categories: American people by ethnic or national origin
		This page was last modified 17:37, 6 September 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Vietnamese_Americans (113 words)

	AsianWeek: A Hand for Vietnamese Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the ’80s, Vietnamese American nail salon owners spearheaded the concept of the “discount” salon, a bare-bones, fluorescent-lit shop where a complete set of acrylic tips could be had for less than $25.
		Drummey couldn’t put her finger on why Vietnamese Americans are doing nails, saying only that they “have an orientation for personal care service.” But nonetheless, getting hired at a place where the boss speaks your language is always easier than the converse.
		Vietnamese immigrants’ children, she said, “are acclimated to the American life and are not willing to work under the same condition.” Nevertheless, Drummey doubts the Vietnamese segment of the market is going to disappear.
	www.asianweek.com /1999_11_25/feature_nails.html (1768 words)

	From Refugees to Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 1.2 million-strong Vietnamese American community reflects upon this dramatic historical journey in 2005, which marks ten years since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam, and 30 years since the fall of the Saigon government, which initiated the ‘first wave’ of Vietnamese refugees.
		Vietnamese immigrants were only identified separately by the Office of Immigration Statistics in the decade of the 1950s, when 335 were admitted as refugees and became Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs).
		Although the Vietnamese community has a per capita income 40 percent lower than the national average, the median family income is the highest of all the Southeast Asian American refugee populations ($46,929 according to the 2000 Census).
	www.ailf.org /ipc/refugeestoamericans.asp (2956 words)

	Vietnam War
		The North Vietnamese portrayed the conflict as one between the indigenous South Vietnamese NLF and the United States, with the noncombat support of North Vietnam and its allies.
		Some of the Americans opposed to the Vietnam War, as for instance Jane Fonda, stressed their support for ordinary Vietnamese civilians struck by a war beyond their influence.
		The Vietnamese list over 200,000 of their own soldiers Missing in Action, and bodies of MIA soldiers from World War I and II continue to be unearthed in Europe.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Vietnam_War (8367 words)

	Vietnam War Casualties
		American involvement in the war was a gradual process, as its military involvement increased over the years under successive U.S. presidents, both Democrat and Republican (including Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon), despite warnings by the American military leadership against a major ground war in Asia.
		One of the first occurred on July 27, 1964 when 5,000 additional American military advisers were ordered sent to South Vietnam which brought the total number of US forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
		Then on August 4, 1964 American destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.
	www.vietnam-war.info /casualties (730 words)

	The Vietnamese Americans — www.greenwood.com
		The Vietnamese Americans, written by a former Vietnamese refugee, is the only in-depth resource especially for students and general readers with a solid introduction to Vietnam, the history of Vietnamese immigration, and a forthright analysis of Vietnamese Americans' struggles to forge a better future.
		As their adjustment process is chronicled from the perspectives of the family and ethnic community, the label of the model minority is debunked to reveal both minor economic successes and serious problems such as high school dropouts and gang activity.
		A concluding chapter addresses the future of the Vietnamese American community, assessing the model minority myth, economic survival, cultural preservation, political agenda, and problem generations and community development.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR9780.aspx (346 words)

	AMERICANS WHO LIVED AS PEASANTS
		The Americans were handpicked, chosen because they had shown particular respect for the local culture.
		They were expected to live in the villages they were assigned to defend, striving to "work themselves out of a job" by training their Vietnamese counterparts in police work and security operations.
		Living in Vietnamese hamlets for months, the marines got a chance to get to know the locals, who in general had kept a careful neutrality in the war.
	home.earthlink.net /~americans_who_lived_as_peasants/index.html (2637 words)

	25 Vietnamese Americans in 25 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Huyen Nguyen, are working on a publication entitled, "25 Vietnamese Americans in 25 Years." We are seeking writers and volunteers for the project.
		The purpose of the publication is not only to commemorate such an important date in Vietnamese history, but also to celebrate 25 years of Vietnamese American contributions to the fabric of American society.
		Increase greater awareness of the Vietnamese American community and the issues confronting the community and its members.
	www.nonsong.org /sinhhoat/25years.html (1007 words)

	vietnamese
		A comparison is made between American and Vietnamese cultures with regard to: affection, celebrations, clothing, cooking, greetings, housing, sleeping, dating, philosophy, religion, and other topics.
		47 words on the preprimer list, 70 words on the first level, and 61 words on the second level list.
		Compiled to encourage the Vietnamese children to maintain their language, this is a tool to use for pronunciation, phonics and spelling.
	www.state.me.us /education/esl/vietnamese.htm (946 words)

	Vietnamese Gospel Resources
		Vietnamese is the official language, and Chinese, English, French, Khmer (Cambodian), Hmong, and tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) are also spoken.
		Vietnamese is number 9 on the list of the 50 Most Common Languages in the U.S. An article in American Demographics, estimates that the areas with the largest concentration of Vietnamese Americans, in terms of overall regional population are, in order, Orange County, California; Santa Clara County (200,000); and the greater Houston area.
		The article Case Study: A Vietnamese Church documents the planting of a new Vietnamese church in Seattle.
	www.ethnicharvest.org /peoples/countries/vietnam.htm (951 words)

	War and War-Era Movies: Media Resources Center UCB
		An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps is wounded, falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse and joins her in Switzerland.
		Story of the controversial American general George Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
		Witness to the gang rape and murder of a Vietnamese civilian, Private Ericksson is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve in this devastating and unforgettable tale of one man's quest for sanity and justice amidst the chaos of war.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Warfilm.html (13850 words)

	National Congress of Vietnamese Americans
		By the close of the Vietnam War, an estimated 135,000 people of Vietnamese descent had fled to the U.S. Today, that population has grown to almost 1 million.
		And according to the 2000 census, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with a combined population of more than 50,000 people of Vietnamese descent, ranks fourth among U.S. metropolitan areas in the number of Vietnamese residents.
		HR 2792 - To extend eligibility for refugee status of unmarried sons and daughters of certain Vietnamese refugees
	www.ncvaonline.org (790 words)

	The American Spectator
		Spanning the three Orange County, California cities of Westminster, Garden Grove and Santa Ana, the residents of this communist-free (by legislation) stronghold have little use for War Hero candidate John Kerry.
		Kerry is considered a traitor to the Vietnamese cause.
		Emigrating with his parents at age 10 from Saigon, Tran went on to get a B.A. in Political Science from the UC Irvine, and then went on to earn both a Master's in Public Administration and a Juris Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7034 (1444 words)

	ICS 20 Sample Exams
		How many Japanese American internment camps were there during World War II?_____ (number).
		Who are some famous Korean Americans?____________________________ (list names).
		In your own words, comment on the significance (define the concept, discuss what it is using an example, and describe why it is important) of the "community of memory," and its critical role in developing "roots" and "breaking the silence" in Asian American Studies.
	lore.deanza.fhda.edu /fujioka/sample.html (1243 words)

	NAM 2005 - Latest news on Hurrican Katrina & Disaster Relief on Vietnamese American
		Post-Katrina race argument wastes energy by Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS "In East Biloxi, home to many African Americans and Vietnamese Americans, blocks of simple bungalows and cottages from the early 20th century are in terrible condition - some of them knocked off of their foundations, if not reduced to rubble.", from
		Vietnamese translator Cindy Nguyen, left watches while Dr. David Krol from New York city examines Phong Tran in Biloxi, Miss.
		Vietnamese immigrants Nhiem Pham(L) and Chien Bui(R) stand in their home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi.
	www.nam2005.com /news/katrina.html (4677 words)

	Vietnamese - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Vietnamese : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
		Vietnamese : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Phrases that include Vietnamese: vietnamese monetary unit, north vietnamese, cambodian vietnamese war, chinese vietnamese, list of vietnamese americans, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Vietnamese (178 words)

	New America Media
		African Americans vying for office in predominently white districts and in statewide office face scrutiny from the community, some see them as insensitive to fl issues.
		For some Chinese Americans, memories of Sept. 11 are marred by the graffiti on the mural of a San Francisco-native flight attendant who died on Flight 11.
		Her family and other Chinese American survivors of Sept. 11 tell their stories.
	news.newamericamedia.org /news/view_article.html?... (514 words)

	OVER A CENTURY OF U
		The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 1999.
		Among sources used, besides news reports, are the Congressional Record (23 June 1969), 180 Landings by the U.S. Marine Corps History Division, Ege and Makhijani in Counterspy (July-Aug. 1982), and Daniel Ellsberg in Protest and Survive.
		Permission to reproduce this list in its entirety
	www.zmag.org /CrisesCurEvts/interventions.htm (656 words)

	UVSA - Vietnam and the Presidency Conference Omits Vietnamese Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Apparently the Host forgot to include one group of Americans to participate in this conference: Vietnamese Americans.
		How convenient it is that Vietnamese Americans and Vietnamese are being left out of this discussion again.
		This is too bad because the Vietnamese-American perspective on the Vietnam War at this conference can only add value to the conference’s goals and America’s foreign policy.
	www.thsv.org /news_details.aspx?newsID=1106 (358 words)

	APIAVote.org
		Learn more about how Asian And Pacific Islander Americans are shaping the American cultural landscape
		Congratulations to our organization of the month, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, for protecting the APIA vote!
		Asian American college students across the country are organizing around the 2004 Presidential Election like never before.
	www.apiavote.org (196 words)

	Ameredia: Vietnamese Media List
		Asian Americans in the age group of 25-54 spend on average 50% more time on the Internet then all other men in the same age group.
		Ameredia provides media planning, buying, placement and tracking services in these Vietnamese American media outlets.
		Get the latest happenings on Asian American and other multicultural markets.
	www.ameredia.com /resources/vietnamese_media.html (133 words)

	LP: Kerry Testified 'US Was Worst Geneva Convention Violator, 200,000 Murdered By US in Vietnam'
		Higher Medicare premiums will affect 1.5 million Americans
		Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs
		In the aftermath of the war many Americans came to believe that some of the 2, 300 American soldiers listed as "Missing in Action" had in fact been taken prisoner by the DRV and held indefinitely.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=37141 (1257 words)

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