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Nguyen, Nam Van
Vietnamese language interview with Nguyen Van Nam, who rose to the rank of Colonel in the South Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. He was forced to flee Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon and resettled in Texas, where he worked in a number of…
Nguyet, Cao Anh
Cao Anh Nguyet shares her family history as a descendant of the Nguyen dynasty, her experiences teaching after the communists gained control after 1975, her sponsorship to the U.S. and about her current journalism work.
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Nguyễn, Chí Thiện
Interview with Nguyễn Chí Thiện (1939–2012), a Vietnamese poet and activist who was jailed numerous times by the North Vietnamese during pre and post 1975 Vietnam for a total of 27 years. He often committed his poems to memory during his…
Hoang, Khanh Han (Kathy)
Kathy Khan is the first Vietnamese American woman appointed to a full-time presiding judge position in Houston, Texas. She relates the multiple challenges that she has endured as a minority and a woman in her career. She escaped Vietnam on April 29,…
Nguyen,Van Toan (Andrew)
Nguyen Van Toan recalls his childhood in North Vietnam and his family moving to South Vietnam after the 1954 partition of the country. He was conscripted into the army at the age of twenty while he was in college. He lost both of his legs in a land…
Phan, Chris
Chris Phan was born in the Vinh Long province in Vietnam. His dad and uncles had been involved in the military or politics in South Vietnam, but after 1975, his family was forced to move to a rural area during the land reforms. He remembers that his…
Quach, Tien
Quach Tien was born in Saigon, Vietnam and left the country when he was three years old. He recalls the discrimination the family faced because his father had served in the ARVN (Army Republic of Vietnam). He became a US citizen in the late 1980s and…
Hoang, Mong Thu (Megan)
Mong Hoang was sixteen years old during the Fall of Saigon. Previously, her family owned a restaurant that had served American troops near an airbase. She and her family was sent off to work in a rubber tree plantation as part of a communist…
Le, Tay Cung
Cung Le explains how he escaped Vietnam as a child with his mother three days before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. They ended up in refugee camps in the Philippines and then Guam. They were resettled in San Jose, California, where discrimination and…
Lê, Sơn Thanh
Vietnamese language interview with Sơn Thanh Lê, who describes his experiences in a communist reeducation camp after the South Vietnamese surrender to the North Vietnamese government in 1975.
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