I hadn't known about it so I was just wearing it randomly. We went to a nice vegan vietnamese restaurant. Everyone ordered nicely and then when thr server looked at me he tensed up and got quiet. Then one by one the staff would come around silently look at me then walk away. There was a bunch of hushed discussion in vietnamese as they stole glamces at me. Then later all the staff came out and stood around me and asked me my thoughts on Vietnam. It was real awkward and quiet as they explained to me what the flag was and I showed them it was a childrens cartoon. My food came in burned and I did not complain.

At the time I didn't really know the significance of any of it. It was in a vietnamese neighborhood so I think I might have gotten kicked out if I wasn't written off as a dumb white guy.

In this neighborhood a business has a big mural that says vietnamese comunism and shows a vietnamese guy in uniform executing someone. I am thinking the emotions are still strong there