‘Still fresh in minds’: Vietnamese community marks 50 years since fall of Saigon

EDMONTON — Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat.
Officers in Vietnam remind him of the communist soldiers who once stormed and captured Saigon, the former South Vietnam capital now called Ho Chi Minh City.
The fall of Saigon 50 years ago — on April 30, 1975 — marked the end of the two-decade-long Vietnam War.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla troops captured the city to unif