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Saigo was marked 50 years ago End of the Vietnam WarAnd for WCCO Pauleen Le, the family’s initialization of the Immigration story to the American – so many Minnesotan families with the families of the family. Le shares the story below.
Ten years have passed since the end of the war, the pain and courage of that time are still very fresh for my parents.
For my mother, his family’s journey to the United States, started in 1975 10 days before Saigo’s fall, and sent refugees to escape when they fled the mass C-130.
Together with my mother’s 10 brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandfather, the island used as an American processing center flew to wake up.
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Each person only allowed a personal bag and birth certificates. There is no good for those who have the rest of my loved ones, who are sticking to my mother in a small village with great grandmother.
My mother remained a six-year year without turning it into the United States; Communists who have to work in labor camps were built for youth of the country; The lovely my country has changed and thinks the government will understand who is; And it will be punished or punished for working for the American forces during the war as a translator and the Shofeur.
Interactive Map: My mother’s family’s journey
As for the rest of my mother’s family, they will spend three months in Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, which is waiting for a sponsor. There were suggestions, but none was ready to take more than one person at once and did not want to leave, so they waited.
Then, the first Baptist Church in New York City of Owego agreed to meet all in August 1975. It was a great news for the small town. My grandparents even made even local paper.
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Meanwhile, my father fought with Americans during the war in the South Vietnamese fleet. During the fall, his fleet was on the ship and ordered the captain to swim to the ocean for security.
After understanding that South Vietnam fell into the communists, they knew that they could not go back to good and go back to a short moment. They simply had to run for it.
The U.S. Navy base in the Philippines, transition to the American ship and set their sails for GUAM. They were not the only ones, because the front pages of local newspapers caught the continuous flow of refugees coming from the small island coming to the small island after the enemy.
My father would remain 25 days in GUAM. From there, Pennsylvania flew into Fort Indiantown Gap. A few weeks later the news came in a sponsor in the Connecticut.
Interactive Map: My father’s journey
My father was alone in a new land, cultural, language, language, and no money in his name. In Vietnam, he had to leave both his parents and six brothers and sisters.
He did not know if his family had been dead or alive in four years. How long did my father take to take the courage to contact the family with the family. He was very afraid, caught by the communist government of his letters, and his family will pay the price to escape.
About two months after his first letter, my grandfather died of the shot. My father could not bring him home to say goodbye to the funeral. It would be a decade to be re-opened for Vietnam for international travel.
This story is part of Pauleen Le documentary “Vietnam 50 years later: reflection in the war that replaced Minnesota“
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- Buenger Education Center (bec)
- 1282 Concordia Avenue, St. Paul, mn 55104
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