Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family was originally from Hue. They moved to Saigon in 1956 to buy a pharmaceutical company owned by a Frenchman. It was one of the largest companies in South Vietnam, with about 600 employees. It is nationalized...
...leave Saigon. They flew to Bangkok and there some relatives in the government helped them get out of the country. My mother wanted to go to Paris, but the decided at the last minute to come to the U.S., because she was afraid the French might return them to Vietnam. She's one of the first people they would kill. She was active in politics, a sort of link between officials on almost every level of government, and she was important in business. She ran the company since my father died three years...
...mother has a fatalistic attitude, she will wait and see. All of my six brothers were already in the U.S. Five are studying and the youngest, who is six, is living with me. He was sent over last September when it became too dangerous for him to stay in Vietnam. I also have three sisters studying in Paris...
...mother left without papers. She had a permanent visa because she worked with an international company, but after the fall of Da Nang all visas were declared illegal and everyone was forbidden to leave Vietnam. Those who could, however, did, regardless of papers. The situation was desperate because so many wanted to get out. Many people who should have gotten out didn't. I heard of someone who had worked for the CIA for ten years and he couldn't get out, but prostitutes and other people who didn't have to flee to save their lives got out because...
...believe in democracy. Every family had sons killed in the war, and people built up hatred for the communists. It is unfair to give people those ideals, then sit back and hand then over to the communists. I really think it was inevitable though. Everyone knows that South Vietnam is the result of U.S. action...