The Fall of Saigon took place 50 years ago on April 30, 1975. An illustration by Nancy My Tran depicts a Vietnamese altar honoring a lost loved one. A poem by Julianne Le reflects upon the effects of imperialism and war.| Pacific Ties
Some wars are fueled by the same fire. In 1969, Asian American students at UCLA recognized that the violence occurring during the Vietnam War possessed an unsettling likeness to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These students wrote about these connections in Gidra, the precursory publication to the Pacific Ties Newsmagazine.| Pacific Ties