Duc Dang Tae Kwon-Do Demonstration on Black April

On April 30, 2011, the Hwa Rang Kwan Martial Arts Academy demonstration team performed at the 36th Annual Black April Commemoration event held at the Vietnam War Memorial Park to commemorate the Fall of Saigon.

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Black April? It was true indeed, but only for 10%-20% of the population in South Vietnam! For the tiny anti-communist minority, wasn´t it? The big majority of the South Vietnamese welcomed and greeted warmly the arriving liberators (Việt Cộngs and Bộ Độis), laughing, shouting and jumping out of joy - like in Paris on the Liberation Day! It was the second time in my life I saw the civilian population cheered soldiers in Saigon. The 1st time was on the 2nd November 1963 after the announcement of the death of the brothers Diệm-Nhu: the pagodas of the Buddhists were loud and overcrowded, the churches of the Catholics silent and empty - the Buddhists were overjoyed, the catholics somehow sad! The 2nd time was on the 30th April 1975 after the surrender announced by General Nhựt . Again the people in Saigon were divided and polarized: loud over-happiness and joyful shooting in the air with the abandoned M16s - but mainly in the poorer areas or slums and mainly by the poor and by young men and women; it was silent and grim in the catholic areas or in the richer areas (mostly in the residential ones with many beautiful french villas). The ARVN soldiers were loved in the first event after the succesful coup-d´état against the dictator and despote Diệm , the Liberation Army soldiers in the second event when Saigon was liberated!

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huu-ban vu Don’t need to bring politics into martial arts. Show your information on this topic on a Vietnam war video instead. Punching and kicking at an event doesn’t require your expertise in the field of the Fall of Saigon.