Dunwoody has dedicated a Vietnam War memorial that recognizes not only the Americans killed, but the Vietnamese who also died fighting communist forces.
It’s one of the few memorials in the country to salute the South Vietnamese soldiers who fought side-by-side with American soldiers.
Two bronze statues stand guard over the memorial, one an American soldier, and one Vietnamese.
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More than 58,000 Americans and more than 300,000 South Vietnamese were killed during the war.
The monument is the vision of Tra My Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam four months after the country fell to communists.
“This dream of having a monument of both American and Vietnamese soldiers, like this statue is almost a dream of every Vietnamese American to come to this country to run away from the communists,” Nguyen said.
Throughout her childhood, she lived under communist rule.
Her father was imprisoned by the communist government.
Eventually, she fled to America and is now among the 160,000 people of Vietnamese descent living in Georgia.