San Jose council unanimously approves banning communist Vietnamese flag

Supporters draped yellow flags of South Vietnam over their shoulders while others joined hands and held back tears, as San Jose became the first Bay Area city to ban the flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on city flagpoles. Councilman Tam Nguyen, who fled communism in his native Vietnam when he was 19 proposed the idea, got emotional when the unanimous vote was cast after a lengthy debate late Tuesday night.