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Memorial, Thailand, Koh Kra Island
Plaque honoring those who were kidnapped, raped, marooned, abused, tortured, or murdered on this island during their attempts to flee Vietnam. Some estimate that up to 160 refugees suffered on this island. The plaque recognizes Ted Schweitzer, who…
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…
Nguyen, Tho V. (Thomas)
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…
Tang, Khanh Duc
Khanh Duc Tang describes his escape from Vietnam with his father, Can Tang, his mother and sister when he was fifteen years old in a small boat from My Tho in April of 1983. His sister was abducted by Thai fishermen along with three other young…
Tang, Can
Can Tang worked with the United States CIA during the Vietnam War. Postwar, he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp by the new communist government until his family bribed an official to release him in 1983. He escaped Vietnam in a small boat from…
Nguyen, Nam Loc
Nam Loc Nguyen discusses his involvement as director for the Immigration and Refugee department for Catholic Charities, in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He begins with the story of how he, himself, was a refugee that fled from Saigon on April 27,…