I was the last Vietnamese woman to walk the Tao Dan public park in central Saigon, March 1975, for this honor (the national honor prize in literature for the Trung Sisters' commemoration), awarded by the now defunct Republic of Vietnam. The collapse of South Vietnam occurred barely a month later...
The award was started by Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu of the First Republic.
I celebrated (poignantly) my 17th birthday in America, Happy or sad? What I left behind: a wound that nevel heals.
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