Aguna was also named after the ship that rescued his family and was born on-board.
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A father goes 'badass' to save his family
A father goes 'badass' to save his family
"I'm the guy who caught you" (When dropped from the helicopter)
A 10-month-old Mina Nguyen cries after she is dropped into the arms of a sailor after her father's high-risk escape.
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Nguyen shuffled to his feet from his wheelchair, straightened his jacket as he looked at Jacobs, and, with a trembling right hand, he saluted.
If you'd seen him in the crowded room that night, you might not have given him a second look.
He was the frail old man in a wheelchair. He wore a black ascot cap, a
burgundy tie and a gray tweed jacket that covered his 140-pound frame.
Ba Van Nguyen couldn't speak, could barely move; just a tiny man in a
roomful of big Navy men swapping war stories.
But rewind the clock 40 years, slap a pistol in Nguyen's shoulder
holster, add about 10 pounds of wiry muscle, and strap him into the seat
of a military helicopter armed with an M60 machine gun and he becomes
something else:
A total badass.
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We as a Nation sold our souls to the Devil himself in our cowardly betrayal of South Vietnam.
ReplyDeleteEvery Vietnamese I have ever met from the old country, old or young when they left, all have a haunted look in their eyes.
My wife learned to sing a Viet song, about a young girl on a bridge. When she sings it, to this day the old Viets break down in tears for their loss. And then they thank her that she (a white woman, obviously culturally appropriating) is helping keep their traditions alive.
God, we have so much to make up for these people.
Maybe killing all the liberals would suffice....:) Do you have a recording?
DeleteI wish. She just lost her voice due to too many hospital visits lately thrashing her voice. Hope she gets it back because that song is so sad. So very Vietnamese.
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Awesome story!
ReplyDeleteThey must have gone through some trials starting over literally with the clothes on their back.
Many refugees arrived in the same position. He had been prepared and took gold bars but lost them in the ocean. Too bad he didn't drop them on deck, but what he did was extraordinary. Most all Vietnamese keep their money in gold at home.
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