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Báo ocregister.com viết về cờ Vàng bị cấm không được cử hành lễ 30 tháng 4, 2015. Vì nguyên tắc lãnh thổ Hoa Kỳ đều thuộc liên bang và phải tuân thủ giao thức Liên bang về đối ngoại khi đã có quan hệ đối ngoại với Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam.
Camp Pendleton will not host fall of Saigon commemoration
April 10, 2015
A commemoration ceremony at Camp Pendleton for the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, during which 5,000-plus people were expected to attend, will have to be moved because of a U.S. policy that would prohibit the use of South Vietnam symbols on federal property.
A new venue for the ceremony has not be found, but organizers are hoping to know more on Monday.
Organizers had been planning the all-day event, scheduled for April 25, for more than a year. They chose Camp Pendleton because of its historical significance as the first base on U.S. soil to house Vietnamese refugees after they fled their homeland.
Pendleton represents the refugees’ first step in becoming a successful American community.
“Although we understand that on federal land, we must abide to federal protocol to not interfere with foreign policy plans,” said Ngo Thien Duc, the chariman of the event’s organizing committee, “without the flag that countless people lost their lives for and without the song that reminds our community of the fight for freedom and democracy, this event can not fulfill its intended purpose.”
The Department of Defense could not immediately elaborate on how the policy came about or why it exists. But the U.S has had normalized diplomatic and economic relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam since 1995.
Typically, playing the national anthem and flying the flag of unrecognized countries isn’t allowed on federal property, said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool, a spokesman for the department.
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