Viet Beauty Queen's Miss World Recital Reawakens War Debate

Nearly a half century later still there are reverberations

Jan 19

By: Travis Vincent

The repercussions from the US’s defeat in Vietnam have found their way 48 years later into a beauty contest in Puerto Rico at the hands of Đỗ Thị Hà, who was chosen to represent her country as Miss Vietnam at the 70th edition of the Miss World Competition. She chose to play a revolutionary war song that months later is still stirring c…

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