South Vietnam’s Flags at the Capitol Riot
What was the flag of an extinct state doing amid the carnage?
By: Tuan Hoang
Among the American, Trump, Tea Party, and Confederacy flags that turned up in the January 6 invasion of the Capitol in Washington, DC plus a small number of national flags of Australia, Japan, South Korea, etc, was the flag of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), which had ceased to exist in 1975.
Why did the three-red-stripes-on-yellow flag pop …