Saigon
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American and South Vietnamese forces were headquartered in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
A commercial, industrial, and transportation hub of Southeast Asia, Saigon enjoyed rapid growth and cultural prestige as the capital of French Indochina.
Renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victorious Vietnamese communists in 1976.
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But while others established national reputations — Anaheim for Disneyland and sports teams, Westminster and Garden Grove for their slices of Little Saigon — Stanton remained an outcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The marmalade-loving bear's nine trophies are the most ever for a new musical, and equal the joint record previously set by Miss Saigon and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
Directed by Bo Öhlén, the 30-minute film includes Swedish footage of “the lively and emotional atmosphere in Stockholm on April 30, 1975 — the day Saigon was liberated, marking the end of the Vietnam War.”
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025
Thomas Fowler is a middle-aged British reporter living in 1950s Saigon with a young Vietnamese woman, Phuong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
One day, on the phone with a State Department official named Mike Forrestal, Ellsberg quoted from a cable that had just come in from the American embassy in Saigon.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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