Photos left to right: Melanie Nguyen’s dad, Ly Nguyen (right), landed in Houston, Texas, after his arrival in the U.S. from Vietnam. A colorful mural of a Vietnamese woman in Little Saigon in Seattle’s International District.

To mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon, Stritmatter Law attorney Melanie Nguyen and fellow attorney Joanne Kalas, both former presidents of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington (VABAW), shared a powerful conversation in the June issue of the Washington State Bar Association Bar News.

They reflect on the legacy of war, the silence within refugee families, and how those histories shape their identities and work as lawyers today.

Read the article here.

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