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Monument Stolen From Vietnamese Garden | San Jose News
San Jose police are urgently hunting two suspects who pulled off a brazen, 30-minute heist, stealing the 1,500-pound “Thank You, America Monument” from the Vietnamese Heritage Garden — a deeply symbolic tribute to U.S.-South Vietnamese wartime alliance. Footage shows them breaking in at dawn, disabling a utility box, and hauling the statue away in a truck. The monument, unveiled just this year after nearly a decade of planning and costing nearly half a million dollars, holds profound meaning for the city’s large Vietnamese community. Its theft — following prior vandalism and last year’s theft…
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