Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part one War is a Terrible Thing!
- Part Two Guarding One’s Humanity During War: World War II
- Part Three Other Voices, Other Wars: From Indochina to Iraq
- 8 For My Family
- 9 Bad Memory, Bad Feeling
- 10 Someone Loving Me
- 11 Collateral Damage and the Greater Good
- 12 Easily the Worst Experience of My Life
- Part Four Civil Wars and Genocides, Dictators and Domestic Oppressors
- Part Five My Story, Your Choice How to Use it
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments by the Senior Author
- Index
8 - For My Family
Tuan, South Vietnamese Soldier
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part one War is a Terrible Thing!
- Part Two Guarding One’s Humanity During War: World War II
- Part Three Other Voices, Other Wars: From Indochina to Iraq
- 8 For My Family
- 9 Bad Memory, Bad Feeling
- 10 Someone Loving Me
- 11 Collateral Damage and the Greater Good
- 12 Easily the Worst Experience of My Life
- Part Four Civil Wars and Genocides, Dictators and Domestic Oppressors
- Part Five My Story, Your Choice How to Use it
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments by the Senior Author
- Index
Summary
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 PlainStories of Conflict and Humanity during War, pp. 133 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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