Florida Today from Cocoa, Florida • Page 2
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- Florida Todayi
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- Cocoa, Florida
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2A FLORIDA TODAY, Monday, May 1, 2000 VIETNAM 25 YEARS LATER Refugees face pressure, discrimination Return to battleground brings closure to vets i 1 1 I Li I 1 A 4 X4 j0- A i In I i 'V I ttfim.r mini -f w- -wr id. i AP an appearance by presidential candidate Sen. John McCain when someone labeled Nguyen a communist, and the crowd turned on him. McCain, whose plane was shot down during a bombing run over Hanoi in 1965, had used an objectionable name in reference to communist prison guards who tortured him. "I wanted people to see the detrimental effect of a racial slur and to know that the word affects all Vietnamese, not just the ones who tortured him," said Bao Nguyen, whose family name is as common as "Smith" is in the United States.
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