A Note from CAPT Hung Cao USN (RET)
This past Sunday, I was honored to speak at the Black Sunday commemoration ceremony in Falls Church, Virginia, with Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. Black Sunday, which falls on April 30th of every year, is a day to observe and reflect upon the fall of Saigon and of South Vietnam.
Forty-eight years after the fall of Saigon, I am grateful that we escaped days before that fateful 30th day of April 1975. My father, a South Vietnamese government official then, would have been sent to a re-education camp, tortured, or even killed. My life would have taken a different trajectory if the United States had not opened its doors to us or the millions of other refugees. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese didn’t have that luxury.
Over 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and nearly 60,000 American soldiers died during the Vietnam War. Today, Vietnam is still suffering under one-party communist rule.
As a nation of immigrants, we have a responsibility as proud Americans to ensure that what happened in Vietnam on April 30th, 1975, can never happen in the United States. We are a beacon of liberty and freedom for the rest of the world, and I’m proud to be fighting with Unleash America to preserve that for future generations.
- CAPT Hung Cao USN (RET), Honorary Chairman of Unleash America PAC
