GRIEF AND REMEMBRANCE

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Twenty years ago Sunday, the last U.S. helicopter left Saigon. As American families remember the pain, the bitterness and the courage of their sons and daughters, Vietnam, too, is remembering its veterans. But this year, Vietnamese celebrations of the April 30th victory holiday were subdued, in part because the country wants to continue encouraging Western investment in its growing economy. At a ceremony for the country's veterans Friday, Ho Chi Minh City Mayor Truong Tan Sang said: "I can assure you that we would not do anything to invoke the ghost of past animosity between our two countries."