The event, known in the United States as the fall of Saigon and conjuring images of panicked Vietnamese trying to crowd onto helicopters to be evacuated, is celebrated as Reunification Day here in Hanoi. “There were no bombs or airplane sounds or screaming. “All the roads were flooded by people holding flags,” Nguyen, now 65, told me recently. ![]() The city was about to become the capital of a unified Vietnam. That morning, as communist troops swept into the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon and forced the U.S.-backed government to surrender, the North Vietnamese Army soldier marked the end of the war along with a crowd of people in Hanoi. HANOI, VIETNAM-Forty years ago, on April 30, 1975, Nguyen Dang Phat experienced the happiest day of his life.
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