The fall marks the day the United States pulled out of Vietnam, ending the war.

The event's keynote speaker was a Vietnamese war veteran who witnessed many atrocities during the war.

Michael Do spent six years in the Vietnamese military forces, and even though the horror of the war still lingers in his memory, it's what happened afterward that forever changed his life.

"One month after April 30th, they broadcast on radio and television for all the officers to go to a, they called a school, to learn, to study the new policy. But actually it was a prison," Do said.

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	Black April Micheal Do recounts his years in a Vietnamese military prison.

"We had only two spoons of rice a day and nothing else but salt water for a whole year. There were only three times we had a little piece of meat, no vegetables, and that's all we had for the whole year. And we survived by catching whatever moved," he said.

Life became so excrutiating, and Do worried about his family so much, that he did the only thing he could do to survive. He tried to forget.

"The family, the wife, your mother, your children, get rid of them from your mind. Think nothing about them, because you think, and you can't help them," Do said.

	Micheal Do, center, year unknown