Author: Michelle Le Chen Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665555033 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 285
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Major General Le Minh Dao was the Commander of the 18th Infantry Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). At Xuan Loc, he became the ground commander during the final Battle for Saigon. A highly respected officer, known for his dogged determination, he held off the North Vietnamese for three weeks in April of 1975, before the ultimate fall of Saigon on April 30th. Dao was captured and spent 17 years in so-called “re-education” camps, before being released in 1992 and then given political asylum in the United States in 1993. In Children of Hope, The Story of Le Minh Dao, Michelle Chen, one of Major General Dao’s nine children, tells her father’s tale, through audio tapes recorded with him in his later years. In addition, the story of the rest of her family’s escape to freedom, through her own recollections and those of her mother and her oldest sister, is relived. The thoughts of two American military colleagues of her father conclude a moving firsthand account of life in Vietnam before, during and after the Fall of Saigon, a world event that touched so many lives.
Author: Michelle Chen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Michelle Le Chen was 7 years old when my father was incarcerated in 1975 after the fall of Saigon on April 30. My mother spent the next 17 years working for my father's release. The rest of my family escaped from Vietnam in 1979 - 80, with most of us settling in Virginia after six trials.
Author: Charlene Lin Ung Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781508700791 Category : Boat people Languages : en Pages : 0
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Saigon, November, 1978. Under the cover of darkness a desperate family leaves home and friends, hoping to escape the harsh regime of Communist Vietnam. Their goal is to reunite with the four oldest children sent ahead to the United States, but first they must evade ruthless communist patrols. Eleven-year-old Nam Moi is confused, afraid and now homeless. Her future seems bleak and devoid of hope. The risks are great, but it was not the first time her family had taken risks. Long ago, her Ung ancestors had migrated from China to northern Vietnam. When the country was partitioned in 1954, they moved again to South Vietnam. Nam Moi, or "little girl from the South", was born in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Her family survived the fighting, but living under Communist rule was very hard. After years of planning and debating, Nam Moi's father made the bold decision to escape, in hope of finding a better life for his children somewhere else. Nam Moi had been taught that sometimes gambles must be taken for a better life. But would this huge gamble bring freedom or cost them all their lives?Nam Moi: A Young Girl's Story of Her Family's Escape from Vietnam is a true story of triumph over repression, danger and hardship. Escaping from Vietnam meant traveling on a rusty cargo ship in the South China Sea for months, barely hanging onto life. Nam Moi's father paid precious gold for the chance to escape the country, but the price the family paid to survive was much higher than gold. They had to start their lives all over again.
Author: Elisabeth Gifford Publisher: Monarch Books ISBN: 9780857210593 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book describes how Robin and Joyce Hill gave up their wealthy expatriate life in China to take sick and abandoned orphans into their home. They have rescued about 1,000 children to date. In 1998 the Hills planned to leave. Instead they felt God calling them to stay in China and set up a foster home for unwanted babies. The couple - with their two youngest children - moved into a tiny apartment miles outside Beijing, setting up the first cot in the dining room. In October 2000 Hope Foster Home received its first children. Many needed medical assistance and would be unlikely to survive under the existing state system. Some were abandoned on the streets or left under bridges. As news spread, so help arrived - including support from singer/songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman. Now directors of Child Welfare Institutes across China have asked Joyce and Rob to step in. This is a riveting example of how one couple have changed hundreds of lives.
Author: Kay Bratt Publisher: Amazon Publishing ISBN: 9780982555002 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where boys were considered more valuable than girls and poverty and the one-child policy had created an epidemic of abandoned infants. As a volunteer at a local orphanage, Bratt witnessed conditions that were unfathomable to a middle-class mother of two from South Carolina. Based on Bratt's diary of her four years at the orphanage, Silent Tears offers a searing account of young lives rendered disposable. In the face of an implacable system, Bratt found ways to work within (and around) the rules to make a better future for the children, whom she came to love. The book offers no easy answers. While often painful in its clear-sightedness, Silent Tears balances the sadness and struggles of life in the orphanage with moments of joy, optimism, faith, and victory. It is the story of hundreds of children -- and of one woman who never planned on becoming a hero but became one anyway.
Author: Dao Huynh Publisher: ISBN: 9781432730833 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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Growing up in a family of ten children during the Vietnam War despite the economic disadvantage, Dao wants to go abroad to study a new culture, and new advance industrial technology in the hope of changing the family hardship, and to show her rebellion against her mother's unspoken rigid rule. Dao believes that if she does well academically she'll have a scholarship for an education abroad to fulfill her dream. She surrounds herself with a group of selected friends, Thuy, Ha, and Linh, who have the same goal in life, mentally supporting her to reach to her goal. She dreams of going to a country that will provide her a better life of freedom that she can make her own choice in any circumstance without the guilt of disappointing her parents, or the people that she lives among. But her plan is dramatically changed right after the Saigon Fall, her Father was sent to the re-education camp a hundred miles away from home in the mountain area away from his family, and his comfortable, familiar life.Dao gets accepted into the college of her choice in spite of her father's background with the own regime, condemned by the current communist government. Is there a light at the end of this tunnel? She is young and naive about the outcome of war, she's optimistic about her future with the new regime. What is it that she is so bound to the call of a better life ignoring the possibility of dying at sea, and throwing away her very first accomplishment with the new government system in her home land? Is it her adventure-mind or the wish of her father that she takes an Unknown Journey to America to conquer again all the odds to live the life she wants to live. But then, the most important reason of the journey-the freedom to live as she wishes-hasn't turned out the way she wants. She's still bound by the duty and the responsibility to her family. Especially, she's still bound by her old rigid moral code instilled in her, so which choice does she have? But, an unknown journey never ends.
Author: GB Tran Publisher: Ballantine Group ISBN: 0345544498 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 286
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A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to forget the past—and to focus on their children’s future. It was only in his late twenties that GB began to learn their extraordinary story. When his last surviving grandparents die within months of each other, GB visits Vietnam for the first time and begins to learn the tragic history of his family, and of the homeland they left behind. In this family saga played out in the shadow of history, GB uncovers the root of his father’s remoteness and why his mother had remained in an often fractious marriage; why his grandfather had abandoned his own family to fight for the Viet Cong; why his grandmother had had an affair with a French soldier. GB learns that his parents had taken harrowing flight from Saigon during the final hours of the war not because they thought America was better but because they were afraid of what would happen if they stayed. They entered America—a foreign land they couldn’t even imagine—where family connections dissolved and shared history was lost within a span of a single generation. In telling his family’s story, GB finds his own place in this saga of hardship and heroism. Vietnamerica is a visually stunning portrait of survival, escape, and reinvention—and of the gift of the American immigrants’ dream, passed on to their children. Vietnamerica is an unforgettable story of family revelation and reconnection—and a new graphic-memoir classic.
Author: General Cao Van Vien Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1786258692 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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General Cao Van Vien describes the final collapse of the South Vietnamese forces in 1975 following the military U.S. withdrawl. “General Cao Van Vien was the last chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff. For almost ten years he worked closely with other senior Vietnamese officers and civilian leaders and dealt with U.S. military and civilian representatives in Saigon. General Vien is therefore particularly well qualified to give an account of the final years from a South Vietnamese standpoint. “This is one of a series of monographs written by officers who held responsible positions in the Cambodian, Laotian, and South Vietnamese armed forces.” Includes over 20 maps, tables and illustrations.
Author: Olga Dror Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108470122 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
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Educational systems of the DRV and the RVN -- Social organizations in the DRV and the RVN -- Publication venues and policies in the DRV and the RVN and prevalent currents in publications -- Educational and social narratives through texts in the DRV
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