June 8, 2020
Tung Nguyen, PIVOT president

I've tried my whole adult life to stay out of the lightning rod in Vietnamese American communities of talking about the emotions and politics of the Viet Nam War. Partly because that has always been personally painful. Partly because I know it is much more painful for those who went through it and lost friends and family. But mostly because it is just a topic that begets a lot of arguments about the past that infects the present and usually does not lead to anything positive for the future.