Quite the honour: President Ronald Reagan with GOP strategist Costanzia Tran
Congressman & SEC chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) with Costanzia Tran
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) with Costanzia Tran
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) with Costanzia Tran
Costanzia with state senator Edward Royce (R-CA) posing for the local media at the inauguration ceremony of the 1989 Little Saigon Spring (Tet) Festival in Orange County, Southern California.
Costanzia and senator Edward Royce (R-CA) take the stage in support of the freedom-loving Vietnamese at the Fall of Saigon 14th Anniversary -- the first ever pro-RVN (Republic of Vietnam / South Vietnam) rally held in exile on US soil.
Today's event draws a dense crowd of 30 000 RVN supporters -- mainly Vietnamese refugees from South Vietnam and their former wartime allies -- who flood into the parking lots of 2 strip malls on opposite side of Bolsa Avenue in Little Saigon, Southern California.
The original event (1989) would go on to become an annual event to commemorate the day Saigon fell to Communism, on 30 April 1975, AND to pay homage to the valiant RVNAF (Quân Lực Việt Nam Cộng Hòa) with the RVNP (Cảnh Sát Quốc Gia Việt Nam Cộng Hòa) -- those who served and those who died over 20 years of fierce resistance against invasion by communist North Vietnam. Five generals took their own lives in this final battle in the defence of South Vietnam.
On behalf of the GOP, Costanzia denouncing Fascism, Marxism, Communism & Socialism at the 1990 Little Saigon Spring (Tet) Festival, an open air anti-communist concert celebrating the lunar new year in Southern California.