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Naval Academy
Unique homecoming to Vietnam for Academy gradPublished 11/08/09
DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he makes an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. 
Chitose Suzuki — Associated Press
U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le, center, solutes to Vietnamese officers during a welcome ceremony for his ship the USS Lassen and another ship, the USS Blue Ridge, at the Tien Sa Port in Danang, Vietnam, on Saturday. On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Cmdr. fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.
Commander H.B. Le, a 1992 Naval Academy graduate, was scheduled Saturday to pilot the USS Lassen into Danang, home of China Beach, where U.S. troops frequently headed for R&R during the war, which ended on April 30, 1975, when the southern city of Saigon fell to communist troops from North Vietnam.
That was the day Le and his family embarked on an uncertain...
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