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The Honoree Dedication Tribute to COUNTERPARTS in the
"Our Journey to Freedom, 40 Years of Vietnamese American Experiences”
Event held at Kennedy Center June 19, 2015 |
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| (Presenter: Ms. Kim-Tai Garcia, an Amerasian resettled under the Amerasian Homecoming Act) |
| "The Counterparts are the network of former Advisors and their counterparts who served throughout Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Advisors served from 1954 through 1975 and fought shoulder to shoulder with Vietnamese military and civilian units throughout the country, in cities and remote hamlets, in the countryside and in the delta, living and sometimes dying side-by-side with their Vietnamese counterparts. Many Advisors remained with their Vietnamese counterparts to the very end and left on the final flight out of Vietnam, on April 30, 1975. Established in 1990 to reconnect former Advisors with their South Vietnamese brothers in arms, Counterparts now has over six hundred registered members from the United States, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Australia, Canada and France.” |
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Counterparts Tribute Video |
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