In the post-Việt Nam War era, the Vietnamese diaspora has made a concerted effort to not only preserve, create, and memorialize public spaces in diasporic communities but also in former refugee detention camps to remember and honor those who once occupied these refugee spaces. Such memorialization efforts by Vietnamese Americans occur “here” in the United States, as well as over “there” in Việt Nam and overseas. Attempts to memorialize the defeated Republic of Việt Nam (more commonly referred to as South Việt Nam), are not a simple glorification of a deceased nation nor to weaponize memory, but rather to avert historical erasure of a nation and a people that remain largely ignored, diminished, marginalized, and misunderstood. For Vietnamese exiles and their strategic memory projects of constructing Little Sài Gòn communities, as well as museums and monuments to document their war and refuge, they would also memorialize their in-between spaces: refugee detention camps that were sites of despair and tragedy, but also hope and survival. Vietnamese Americans play a crucial, proactive role of memorializing their lived experiences of refuge. I will examine the memorials, monuments, and refugee spaces created and preserved by Vietnamese Americans. I hope to provide an engaging paper and PowerPoint presentation as to why these places are historic sites of sentimental importance and tangible value. Additionally, I wish to reevaluate the representation of home by considering these contested sites as liminal spaces of the re-imagined homeland.