Ceremony commemorates Việt Nam's close friend Merle Everlyn Ratner stockbot 0 13 02.29 18:25 https://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/1651124/ceremony-commemorates-vie… + 1 https://vietnamnews.vn/rss/politics-laws.rss + 4 Born in 1956 in New York City, Ratner had a special love for Việt Nam. She took to the streets to protest against the Việt Nam War when she was 13 years old and became famous for hanging anti-war slogans on the Statue of Liberty.