{"id":71335,"date":"2025-04-27T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/27\/fifty-years-since-the-sky-fell-how-the-vietnam-war-changed-australia"},"modified":"2025-04-27T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:00:12","slug":"fifty-years-since-the-sky-fell-how-the-vietnam-war-changed-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71335","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years since the sky fell: how the Vietnam war changed Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the anniversary of Liberation Day, members of Australia\u2019s Vietnamese community look back at the sacrifices made in pursuit of \u2018a good life\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like the world collapsed,\u201d says Thi Xa Nguyen, looking back 50 years to the fall of Saigon.<\/p>\n<p>She was living in the coastal town of V\u0169ng T\u00e0u where the soldiers of the southern Army of the Republic of Vietnam had retreated.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/21\/sign-up-for-five-great-reads-guardian-australias-wrap-of-our-best-summer-stories\">Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/27\/fifty-years-since-the-sky-fell-how-the-vietnam-war-changed-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the anniversary of Liberation Day, members of Australia\u2019s Vietnamese community look back at the sacrifices made in pursuit of \u2018a good life\u2019\u201cIt\u2019s like the world collapsed,\u201d says Thi Xa Nguyen, looking back 50 years to the fall of Saigon.She was livin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,388,430,2327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-vietnam","category-vietnam-war"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71336,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71335\/revisions\/71336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}