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Talk about government in action. After San Jose’s Vietnamese councilmembers Lan Diep and Tam Nguyen criticized an All-Nippon Airways billboard near San Jose’s Little Saigon district that advertised flights to Ho Chi Minh City, the sign came down.

“In Vietnamese, this advertisement promises a ‘smooth flight from San Jose to Saigon.’ However the English portion of the billboard offends the Vietnamese American customer base you are targeting by prominently displaying the name Ho Chi Minh,” Diep wrote in a letter to ANA Sales Director Hiro Yamada.

By Monday afternoon, the billboard at Tully and Monterey Roads had been taken down.

San Jose is home to more than 100,000 Vietnamese residents, the largest such population in any city outside Vietnam, and Diep said the reminder of Ho Chi Minh is an affront to the refugee community. While acknowledging the city’s name change following the Vietnam War, Diep said “any freedom-loving Vietnamese person” will always consider the city to be Saigon.

The letter asked that the billboard and any future advertising of the route — especially ads directed at San Jose — be changed with this in mind.

Diep knows firsthand how passionate the Vietnamese community in San Jose can be about the war and its aftermath. Last May, he was booed at an event commemorating the fall of Saigon when he called the Vietnam War “pointless” and apologized for his poor choice of words.