Reunification Day (holiday in Ho Chi Minh City) - actually a Consul-General was approved to attend

Vietnam's 50th anniversary holiday

includes a parade

the United States (Trump-Vance) will not

be there

April 30, 1975

was the date the Army left

in helicopters after nearly

20 years there in-country.

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Rubio's State Dept., in a

move that angered War Veterans,

banned senior diplomats from 

attending.  However, they did

permit Susan Burns, Consul General

to attend a Tuesday night reception.