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HERO’S VIGIL: Several hundred Vietnamese will hold an all-night vigil in Garden Grove tonight to honor one of their war heroes, who is now back in prison in Vietnam. Ly Tong, who had escaped from a Vietnam prison camp in 1980, shocked his admirers two weeks ago when he hijacked a plane to drop anti-communist literature over Ho Chi Minh City, then parachuted to certain capture. . . . “It was like he has accepted death,” says organizer Chau Tue Phung. “Now we have to honor that spirit.”

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