Huynh, Mylene T.

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 year, after which the family escaped by boat to the Philippines. Her family resettled in the United States where she became a medical doctor and served in the Air Force, a choice she made to repay the United States for accepting her family and fellow Vietnamese refugees. All of her siblings have served in the US military in some capacity.

2013-04-22

Interviewer: Nancy Bui

Audio/Video Recorder: Nghia Tran