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Tuyet Tran describes the hectic last days before the Fall of Saigon, her escape by airplane to the refugee camp of Guam, and her life adjusting in the United States. She recounts her struggles raising three children in a new country, learning a new…

Mylene Huynh describes her childhood growing up in the beach city of Nha Trang during wartime. Her father was a physician that worked for the South Vietnamese. Her mother was a pharmacist. Her father later was place in a reeducation camp for one…

Marc Yablonka holds a Master's of Professional Writing degree earned from the University of Southern California and has worked as a military journalist and as an adjunct professor of English. He has written the book Distant War: Recollections of…

Dr. Madeline Hsu served as the director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She details her research interests and her editorial work and speaks about the importance of Asian American studies as a field of…

Vo Van Bang was born in the city of Hue, Thua Thien, Vietnam, where he later served as council member. He was present during the early stages of the Tet Offensive of 1968. He recalls hearing gun shots from the North Vietnamese Army and fleeing to…