Trust, Deter, Defend

Описание: Performing Group: Guam Territorial Band 2025
Piece: March Blue Spring
Composer: MU1(SW) Brian Sadler
Percussion: MU3 Michael Leshawn Wallace
Video Credits: Flis Family

OPERATION NEW LIFE: Commemorating 50 years of Inafa’maolek

Starting in April 1975, tens of thousands of Vietnamese and other foreign nationals fled from the collapsing country of South Vietnam and its capital of Saigon. This was one of the most significant and concentrated migrations of modern history. The island of Guam (Guåhan) became a refuge in this global episode of mass displacement, exodus, and migration. With “Operation New Life” (ONL), military and civilian institutions on the island received, housed, and processed more than 115,000 refugees. Unfortunately, many in American society know very little about this historical episode. On April 30, 2025, to coincide with and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam Conflict and the start of OPERATION NEW LIFE (ONL), The Guam Philharmonic Foundation, Incorporated invited the community-at-large, especially Vietnam Veterans, former refugees, members of the receiving communities (host families), including military and civilian groups, that were in Guam at the time of ONL (such as NGO and/or faith-based volunteers, family members of military service personnel, among others) to a public ceremony and soft opening of the OPERATION NEW LIFE CENTER.