Word: vietnamize
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...sister, probably nine, ran toward us like long-lost friends. My sister and I had never seen them before, but they knew who we were: the children born in America who didn’t speak our mother’s language, who had never been to Vietnam, who had never met our grandfather who died four years earlier. As we came to know, they were Ông Ngoai ’s neighbors, children who picked his fruit, two of the few people who had watched...
...first husband had been declared dead by the South Vietnamese Navy just 10 days earlier and she had to take care of their son, my half-brother John. As my sister, another brother and I evidence, though, Dad’s yearlong courtship succeeded. He left Vietnam in June 1970, and proceeded to send my mother romantic missives which culminated in a proposal and an airline ticket. My mother came to the United States in April of 1973. Suzanne was born in 1974. The rest, my parents claim, is history...
While visiting Vietnam had confirmed many of my mother’s tales and descriptions, numerous questions remained unanswered. How could my mother board a plane and leave behind everything she knew? All she carried with her was a ratty suitcase and a ticket stamped with the words “Does not speak English. Please Assist.” Did she just run off with my father for the chance to leave a war-torn country? How do people understand each other, and more importantly, fall in love, when they don’t even speak the same language...
...with my father in Saigon and she claims not to remember the details. Still, I 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?...
Babcock devoted time to public service. He was well-read in social justice and deeply involved in his community. Among other activities, he delivered food for Meals-On-Wheels and worked with clinics to help children. He sponsored a needy Chinese family that had escaped by boat from Vietnam and eventually saw the family establish a new life in Waltham, Mass...