Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor a distinguished member of my community. Mr. Vu Van Loc. Mr. Vu has been a leader in Santa Clara County for nearly forty years. As the founder of the Immigrant Resettlement & Cultural Center. Mr. Vu provided essential resettlement services to Vietnamese refugees immediately after the Fall of Saigon and for decades following. He pioneered the historical preservation of the journey of the Vietnamese Boat People when he created the Viet Museum in San Jose. which displays their journey. Mr. Vu was born in 1933 in Nam Dinh. North Vietnam. He became a Lieutenant upon graduation from the Dalat academy in 1954.
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