Thousands gather in Santa Ana to celebrate their triumph over oppression.
For Thao Thi Nguyen, these three winds of time converged Saturday during a Mass at Eddie West Field. She and more than 12,000 others united for the centerpiece celebration of the Fourth National Vietnamese Catholics Convention. We have been spit at, stomped on and buried time and time again. Yet nothing keeps us down forever then, now or in the days to come. For much of its history in that country, Catholicism has been a target of persecution.