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8 - For My Family

Tuan, South Vietnamese Soldier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2014

Kristen Renwick Monroe
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Chloe Lampros-Monroe
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Jonah Pellecchia
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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My name is Tuan. I am about fifty-eight. My childhood was spent in Vietnam in the small village where I was born. I go to high school, then one year of college. After that I have to go to the army. My family has three brothers, then two sisters. I was drafted at twenty. I was studying law and was disappointed. I tried to study more but I had no choice. I had to join the army.

Q. What did your parents say?

They were disappointed but no choice because of the war.

Q. Were you married already?

After the communists took over my country in 1975, I met my wife. We got married in June 1975. After the communists took over my country they put me in a re-education camp for a year. Like a jail. You have to work the fields. Like Cambodia, like prison. They took me because I joined the army in South Vietnam. We lost the war so they took me to go to the re-education camp. So, stop there?

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A Darkling Plain
Stories of Conflict and Humanity during War
, pp. 133 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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