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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Memorial, Australia, Melbourne, Footscray, Saigon Welcome Arch]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Refugees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Boat people]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A Saigon Welcome Arch memorial commemorates arrival of Vietnamese in Australia. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Saigon Welcome Arch]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Khue Nguyen, artist]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[McBride Charles Ryan, architect]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[A collaboration between Council, State Government and the community.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2016-09-17]]></dcterms:date>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/257">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyen, Nam Van ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 jobs, including as a fisherman. He was active in organizing the Vietnamese after a number conflicts with the KKK in Seabrook, Texas between Anglo and Vietnamese fishermen. He moved to Houston and continued to be an active member of the Vietnamese American community. <br />
<br />
The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection of interviews conducted and supported through The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation (VAHF) to provide oral history resources for students, researchers, the general public about the Vietnamese community living abroad. These interviews were conducted and filmed entirely by volunteers as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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 jobs, including as a fisherman. He was active in organizing the Vietnamese after a number conflicts with the KKK in Seabrook, Texas between Anglo and Vietnamese fishermen. He moved to Houston and continued to be an active member of the Vietnamese American community. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Nguyen Van Nam]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2011-03-01]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2011-03-01]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2011-03-01]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Hoang Thanh]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Vietnamese]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Nguyen, Nam Van interview by Nancy Bui on March 1, 2011. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews. Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive, 2019.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/184">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Smith, Demian]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[At the time of the interview, Demian Smith was an attorney based out of Denver, Colorado who advocates for refugees, immigrant families and individuals with disabilities. He describes his experiences in an interracial marriage and multicultural blended family with a Vietnamese Cambodian woman. <br />
<br />
The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection of interviews conducted and supported through The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation (VAHF) to provide oral history resources for students, researchers, the general public about the Vietnamese community living abroad. These interviews were conducted and filmed entirely by volunteers as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[At the time of the interview, Demian Smith was an attorney based out of Denver, Colorado who advocates for refugees, immigrant families and individuals with disabilities. He describes his experiences in an interracial marriage and multicultural blended family with a Vietnamese Cambodian woman. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Demian Smith]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2011-07-23]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2011-07-23]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2011-07-23]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Paul Nguyen]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Hoai Pham]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Vietnamese]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Smith, Demian interview by Paul Nguyen on July 23, 2011. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews. Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive, 2019.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[United States]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/161">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyet, Cao Anh]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cao Ánh Nguyệt]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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.<br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project.<br />
<br />
]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Cao Anh Nguyet]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2010-05-25]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2010-05-25]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Jacky Thanh]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Transcript and Translation: Diễm Hương]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to CD.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Vietnamese]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Nguyet, Cao Anh interview by Nancy Bu. May 25, 2010. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2018, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/160">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Quan, Roger]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Roger Quan was born in the Cho Lon District (Chinatown) in Saigon, Vietnam. He worked as a machinist. He was granted asylum to the U.S. through the Orderly Departure Program in 1988 and eventually settled near San Jose, California. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Roger Quan was born in the Cho Lon District (Chinatown) in Saigon, Vietnam. He worked as a machinist. He was granted asylum to the U.S. through the Orderly Departure Program in 1988 and eventually settled near San Jose, California. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Roger Quan]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-05-26]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2010-05-26]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2010-05-26]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Richard Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Jacky Thanh]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to CD.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Vietnamese]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Quan, Roger interview by Nancy Bu. May 26, 2010. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2018, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/150">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyen, Hung Van (Peter) ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Human rights]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nguyen Van Hung (Peter) was born in 1958 and left Vietnam as a &quot;boat person&quot; in 1979. He first settled in Japan before going to Taiwan in 1988 as a missionary and then to Australia to attend seminary and to be ordained as a Catholic priest. He has been recognized by the United States State Department for his  human rights efforts in Taiwan, including his assistance to Vietnamese immigrants and for the exposure of abuses against foreign laborers and brides. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Nguyen Van Hung (Peter) was born in 1958 and left Vietnam as a &quot;boat person&quot; in 1979. He first settled in Japan before going to Taiwan in 1988 as a missionary and then to Australia to attend seminary and to be ordained as a Catholic priest. He has been recognized by the United States State Department for his  human rights efforts in Taiwan, including his assistance to Vietnamese immigrants and for the exposure of abuses against foreign laborers and brides. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Nguyen, Hung Van (Peter) ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2018-04-06]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2018-08-27]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Trien Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to compact flash.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Vietnamese]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Nguyen, Hung Van interview by Nancy Bui. April 6, 2018. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2018, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/149">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyễn, Chí Thiện]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyen, Chi Thien]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Poetry]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 imprisonments, once at the infamous Hoa Lo Prison. He won numerous awards for his work, including the International Poetry Award in 1985. He resettled in the United States in 1995 and was well known in the Little Saigon community in Orange County, California until he passed away in Santa Ana in 2012. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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 imprisonments, once at the infamous Hoa Lo Prison. He won numerous awards for his work, including the International Poetry Award in 1985. He resettled in the United States in 1995 and was well known in the Little Saigon community in Orange County, California until he passed away in Santa Ana in 2012. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Nguyễn Chí Thiện]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-11-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2010-11-04]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2010-11-04]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Nghia Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Vietnamese]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Nguyen, Chi Thien interview by Nancy Bui. November 4, 2010. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/140">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hoang, Khanh Han (Kathy)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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, 1975 along with her husband, her premature one-month-old and 18 month old baby. She describes how they found a ship amidst gunfire and chaos that took them to safety, and eventually were processed in a refugee camp and sponsored to resettle in the United States. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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, 1975 along with her husband, her premature one-month-old and 18 month old baby. She describes how they found a ship amidst gunfire and chaos that took them to safety, and eventually were processed in a refugee camp and sponsored to resettle in the United States. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Khanh Han Bao Hoang (Kathy)]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-02-18<br />
2011-03-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2013-02-18<br />
2011-03-05]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2011-03-05]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer 2013: Nancy Bui<br />
Videographer: Nghia Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer 2011: Bui Dang Khoa (Scott)]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator of this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright to this audio, video and photo material. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift<br />
]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Hoang, Khanh Han Bao (Kathy), interview by Scott Bui on March 5, 2011 and Nancy Bui on February 18, 2013. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/106">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyen, Tho V. (Thomas)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:alternative><![CDATA[United States]]></dcterms:alternative>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 agrarian reforms. He escaped by boat in a journey of six days and nights in 1980. He also speaks at length about his experiences serving as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army and a founding member of the Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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 agrarian reforms. He escaped by boat in a journey of six days and nights in 1980. He also speaks at length about his experiences serving as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army and a founding member of the Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Thomas V. Nguyen]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-07-30]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2013-07-30]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2013-07-30]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Nghia Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator of this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright to this audio, video and photo material. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Tho, V. Nguyen (Thomas), interview by Nancy Bui, July 30, 2013. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Le, Tay Cung]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnamese Americans]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 bullying inspired him to learn martial arts and now works as an actor. During his fights, he wears the South Vietnamese colors of gold and red as a symbol of pride in his Vietnamese heritage. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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 bullying inspired him to learn martial arts and now works as an actor. During his fights, he wears the South Vietnamese colors of gold and red as a symbol of pride in his Vietnamese heritage. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Cung Le]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2013-07-28]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2013-07-28]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Videographer: Nghia Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator of this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright to this audio, video and photo material. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Tay, Cung Le, interview by Nancy Bui, July, 28, 2013. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[United States]]></dcterms:coverage>
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