Nguyen Khang

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Nguyễn Khang was born in South Vietnam and was forced to leave his country when the communist North Vietnamese Army defeated the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), during the Fall of Saigon.

He was given political asylum by the United States and he enrolled at the University of Maryland and graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He worked for the Defense Information Systems Agency at the Pentagon and then the a systems administrator for a Navy contractor

He was the first and only Vietnamese American killed in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. He was married to Tu Nguyen and they had one son.

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