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Commentary: Why L.A. County’s ‘Jane Fonda Day’ declaration was so astoundingly insensitive

Tanks of the North Vietnamese Army forces take over the South Vietnamese presidential palace, South Vietnamese government's last stronghold, on April 30, 1975 in Saigon.

As a proud member of the Vietnamese American community and the California Assembly, I was deeply disappointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ designation of April 30 as “." This decision on a day that holds sacred significance for much of

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