Cemetery Honors Vietnamese Who Fought Alongside U.S. Troops
Truat Quang Dinh, a South Vietnamese veteran, at an April 30 commemoration of the Fall of Saigon in Westminster's Little Saigon. (Ngoc Nguyen/KQED)
By Ngoc Nguyen
Published: Sep 12, 2014
Drivers on Highway 395 in San Bernardino County might miss the South Vietnamese flags flapping next to a stretch of road as they whiz by. On a hot and windy day, Dr. Chinh Huynh drove his SUV up to an empty, 55-acre plot of land near the city of Adelanto. The land is flat and dotted with dry shrubs. It’s an unlikely site for the first National South Vietnamese Cemetery, two hour’s drive east of Westminster’s “Little Saigon” in Orange County. Huynh is a family practice physician in Orange County, home to the nation’s largest population of Vietnamese-Americans. During the Vietnam War, he was a Vietnamese Marine Corps doctor for the Republic of Vietnam, America’s ally in the fight against the communist North.
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