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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…

Hue Ngoc Tran, nicknamed “Harry” by fellow officers, is a former lieutenant colonel with the 1st Infantry Division Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He discusses the battles he was involved in, including the Tet Offensive of 1968. He later received…

Thomas Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. He was fifteen years old when South Vietnam fell. After the war, his family moved to a rural area to cultivate farmland that was then confiscated and made into a rubber tree plantation under the…

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…

Nguyen Thanh Chieu also known by his pen name, Thanh Thuong Hoang, was a journalist, novelist, and war correspondent in Vietnam between 1953 and 1975. His grandfather and father were both part of the anti-colonial resistance. He recounts what he…