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...says. “With the international situation being what it is, it’s natural that they’re slightly concerned for my safety. But it’s an honor and I think they view it as such.” His family??s support is important. Cohen is an observant Jew, and he often participates in ROTC training activities that violate the Sabbath. He says, “I end up having to make a lot of choices. I hope they’re the right choices. Well, they are the right choices...
...read excerpts from a few of the more than 150 messages that have been posted on the website by Wamba’s classmates, friends, acquaintances and others whom he had never met but were inspired by his memoir, Kinship: A Family??s Journey in Africa and America...
...children eagerly led us the rest of the way. After crossing a narrow footbridge, our family??s former hut emerged from a dense thicket of lychee trees. It was a modest brown and green construction that Ông Ngoai had built himself. He weaved chutes of bamboo together for the walls; he bound thatch together for the roof. The floor was smoothed dirt covered by scratchy mats and the bed was flattened bamboo draped with scraps of cloth. A black and white picture of him sat on the altar to the left of his bed, his image...
...children could find jobs. My mother carried buckets of water, hanging from a long stick crossing her shoulders, from the city well to people’s houses; the lack of indoor plumbing at that time assured her of employment. Suzanne and I wandered through the market surrounding our family??s home, trying to envision how our parents...
...suspect that before she was my mother she was my father’s mistress. I asked my relatives to see those romantic missives, but the letters no longer exist. In 1975, when North Vietnam took over the South, my grandmother burned them. She had to destroy the family??s ties to America as the new government searched homes looking for evidence of treachery and conspiracy. I traveled to Ông Ngoai’s farm with a subconscious hope he’d greet me in those tall grasses but I had to settle...