Protest Over Vietnamese Flag Hits UT-Arlington

Some 3,000 people staged a protest on Saturday that criticized the University of Texas at Arlington’s flying of a Vietnamese flag during a recent International Week, instead of the flag of the former country of South Vietnam, according to an article in today’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The protesters, many of them Vietnam veterans as well as Vietnamese refugees and their children, said the current government’s flag was an affront. The university said it flies both flags, but uses the official flag to mark the homelands of foreign engineering students who have attended.