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Orange County man seeks burial place for Vietnamese vets
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Sep 15, 2014
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Orange County man seeks burial place for Vietnamese vets
American veterans have the right to be buried in veteran cemeteries. But, you don't qualify if you fought alongside U.S. forces, like South Vietnamese troops did during the Vietnam War.
Apple Jacobs at her husband's gravestone at the Riverside National Cemetery. There is no shortage of burial space at this veterans cemetery, but many of the 133,000 veterans now living in Orange County hope that one day there will be a place closer for their survivors to visit.
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American veterans have the right to be buried in veteran cemeteries. But, you don't qualify if you fought alongside U.S. forces, like South Vietnamese troops did during the Vietnam War.

American veterans have the right to be buried in veteran cemeteries. But, you don't qualify if you fought alongside U.S. forces, like South Vietnamese troops did during the Vietnam War. 

New America Media's Ngoc Nguyen met a group of Vietnamese vets establishing the first National South Vietnamese Cemetery in Southern California.