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\n Women wearing Vietnamese national flag T-shirts walk past the Saigon Centre shopping complex in Ho Chi Minh City on April 29, 2025, ahead of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam \u2014 U.S. officials are not attending the main public event commemorating the end of the Vietnam war in Ho Chi Minh City this week, according to a guest list released by the organizers and seen by NPR.<\/p>\n

Top of the list, announced at the final rehearsal for the April 30 military parade, are Vietnam’s biggest friends \u2014 Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and China.<\/p>\n

On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese troops stormed the Independence Palace in central Saigon \u2014 now known as Ho Chi Minh City \u2014 ending the almost 20-year war that caused great losses to both North and South Vietnam, as well as the South’s ally the United States.<\/p>\n