Remember to take your VM02 Da Nang hat off in Chinatown

[MagnumsLeftShoulder]

There was a 95 year old Nazi camp guard living in NYC until a few weeks ago, so I don't find it that far-fetched that there might be a few VC in Honolulu's Chinatown. If Nazis could get in anybody else can too.

[Ronbo710]

A small piece of advice, I wear a VM02 Da Nang unit hat on Hawaii trips for TM, does not play well in Chinatown! My wife finally figured out why we were getting funny looks and rude service, turned it around backwards all was good, I guess a Detroit Tigers hat would have been more appropriate. As a Mariner's fan I just couldn't. Aloha!!

You just made sure I'll wear my Da Nang cap now.

Bravo.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Related question. Is there really a Little Saigon somewhere in Honolulu, or was that made up for the show?

Nope, there's no Little Saigon. Just plain old Chinatown. In fact I was surprised to hear there were Viet Cong living in Honolulu, as mentioned by the OP. If there are it has to be a VERY small number.

Hi Ivan,
When I responded to Seattle Magnum's post years ago, I wrote:
" I recall listening to a Canadian radio show and they pointed out the surprising number of ex Viet Cong living in America, especially Hawaii, in its Chinatown etc"

That info took me off guard as how could we take in ex enemies(soldiers!) while people from friendly nations wait to arrive here? If it was 50, 500, 5,000 or 50,000, I don't know, but any amount 'surprised' and annoyed me, as I explained in a later post wherein in response to Bob I drew a picture of how unfair it would be to let ex NVA enjoy the USA/ Hawaii while American soldiers they killed(in this case a Honolulu kid) were buried nearby.
Especially when they belatedly realized they were in fact on the Bad Guys Team all along, YET still gave Seattle Magnum garbage.
So if one embraced Bobs thinking lets go all the way and throw them a parade.
  The ex Communist officer in the Canadian radio story, telling of ex NVA/VC  in the US and Canada, I recall very well because of his historical importance. His name is Colonel  Bui Tin and when the NVA tanks rolled into the presidential palace in Saigon, in April, 1975, he was the senior officer present and took the surrender of the last South Vietnamese president, Big Minh.  Tin was the guy who officially ended the war on behalf of his masters back in Hanoi.
   So where does Tin wind up? he flees to the West, denounces Hanoi and talks warmly of numbers of his ex fellow soldiers living in Toronto, Australia, Hawaii, California etc.  
I can understand how ex VC(but not NVA), being South Vietnamese, could sneak in by lying about who their war time service was for and then stay on
the down low. 
But openly giving Seattle Magnum guff once they settled here, that irked me. Bygones should be bygones, once enemy states are now our vital allies, but the circumstances of what Seattle Magnum described hit a nerve.
NYC Homicide cops say "we speak for the dead" when they are asked why they go all out solving the death of some forgotten person with no family.
  I thought the same thing about our seemingly forgotten guys -by Bob and his ilk - who died in that war, and tried in my own small way to wake up Bob about his comments. It was little enough, a few minutes to pen some lines, as I thought it was a injustice to the memory of our guys, now buried deep, forever more buried deep.
  If people have a problem with that, so be it.

Amen, brother! I say give no quarter to the enemy. And if they're here they better keep their mouth shut and pray that no one discovers them.

[☨magnum.t]

Take a few months off from the internet and come back to all this!! LOL side not I have a hat with a patch I had made to resemble the Da Nang hat it has my Unit I was in in Afghanistan 4-73 RSTA in gold above gold Airborne wings and the location I was at "Balamaghrab" underneath I get asked about it all the time as to what it means or where it was. I tend to wonder if TM got as many questions wearing his.

[ConchRepublican]

Take a few months off from the internet and come back to all this!! LOL side not I have a hat with a patch I had made to resemble the Da Nang hat it has my Unit I was in in Afghanistan 4-73 RSTA in gold above gold Airborne wings and the location I was at "Balamaghrab" underneath I get asked about it all the time as to what it means or where it was. I tend to wonder if TM got as many questions wearing his.

Thank you for your service ☨magnum.t.