内容摘要：“It happened so quickly. I managed to throw myself into a corner,” he said, adding that he initially thought it was an earthquake.

“It happened so quickly. I managed to throw myself into a corner,” he said, adding that he initially thought it was an earthquake.

A woman pushes a shopping cart past rows of American flags and banners advertising U.S. citizenship and immigration services in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Garden Grove, Calif., April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)A woman pushes a shopping cart past rows of American flags and banners advertising U.S. citizenship and immigration services in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Garden Grove, Calif., April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The flag of former South Vietnam flies above statues of two soldiers at the Vietnam War Memorial in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The flag of former South Vietnam flies above statues of two soldiers at the Vietnam War Memorial in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Young Vietnamese American entrepreneurs no longer shun Vietnam and are working directly with businesses in Vietnam with much success, said Tim Nguyễn, the head of the Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce.

They are also talking about their mental health needs, a topic once taboo among Vietnamese. Traditional names, food and áo dài dresses — once considered embarrassing — are now points of pride, while artists and filmmakers are exploring ways to expand the Vietnamese-American narrative beyond the war, said Tram Le.Tâm Nguyễn, the former head of the chamber of commerce, is among a growing number of Vietnamese-Americans who are choosing to return to Little Saigon to preserve their families’ business legacies. He took over his parents’ cosmetology school in Little Saigon, which has trained more than 50,000 students over four decades.

“We’re the cultural bridges between generations,” he said. “We’re very proud to be Vietnamese, while we’re also proud that we’re contributing greatly to the American society.”

This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors. For more coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end, visitDennis Dostey Dorve, a driver and a part-time fisherman, stands on a fallen tree next to his late father’s room, collapsed by the sea in the family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

The sea began to claim houses in Agavedzi about a dozen years ago, said Dennis Dostey Dorve, whose fisherman father built a home that collapsed in 2016 while Dorve was inside.“The room he had given me is gone, as is the room he occupied before he passed away,” said Dorve. “When I was young, the distance from where I stand now to the shore was considerable.”

Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)