50 Years After The Vietnam War, Legacy Of Nonviolent Resistance Lives On
“It was a big show.” That is how Robert Levering described the celebration in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam.
Levering was attending the celebration as part of a delegation from the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, one of three delegations invited by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations, or VUFO, a non-governmental organization promoting people-to-people diplomacy between Vietnam and countries around the world.
The other delegations were from the National Council of Elders and the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, bringing to Vietnam an intergenerational, cross-movement cadre of organizers and activists to commemorate the anniversary of the war’s end.