This file photo dated 27 February, 1999 shows a group of Vietnamese-American volunteers distributing US and former South Vietnam flags to demonstrators near the entrance of a video shop in Little Saigon, California after the shop owner displayed a flag of Vietnam and a portrait the late communist leader Ho Chi Minh, angering many from the Vietnamese-American community who fought against Ho and the North during the 1960s and 70s. The first visit next week of a Vietnamese head of state to the United States since the end of the Vietnam War has dismayed many older members of this thriving community south of Los Angeles. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

This file photo dated 27 February, 1999 shows a group of Vietnamese-American volunteers distributing US and former South Vietnam flags to demonstrators near the entrance of a video shop in Little Saigon, California after the shop owner displayed a flag of Vietnam and a portrait the late communist leader Ho Chi Minh, angering many from the Vietnamese-American community who fought against Ho and the North during the 1960s and 70s. The first visit next week of a Vietnamese head of state to the United States since the end of the Vietnam War has dismayed many older members of this thriving community south of Los Angeles.

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