I've lived in this city for six years now and I never realized that there was a memorial to the monk, Thich Quang Duc,who set himself on fire in 1963. There is quite a famous picture of the monk which I remember seeing when I was younger. Here is a link to more details about the event.
I've driven past it hundreds of times and never realized what it was so I stopped the other day to take photos. Its a really nice memorial on the spot of the event. As you can imagine, its very different now to the time it happened. The street is really busy but people were still going there to leave flowers.
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