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Both interviewees, Kinh Vu and Tien, were born and lived in North Vietnam in Hanoi. After 1954 when Vietnam was independent from French colonialists, both chose to move to South Vietnam for a better living. After the Vietnam War broke out, they both joined the South Vietnam army and fought the war. After the war, they were both put into re-education camps. After being released in 1984, Vu Kinh (Vu as family name and Kinh as given name) fled to the U.S. as boat people and settled in Orange County. After four years in 1988, Tien moved to the U.S. through the Humanitarian Operations program for former re-education camp prisoners, and also settled in Orange County. They both have strong feelings against the North Vietnam regime and declined to have their faces shown because the topic about the war is still controversial and their points of view are radical. To protect themselves from unnecessary troubles, they refused to publish their faces. [Profile bio] Zhehao Cai is born and raised in Shanghai. He is a currently a USC freshman student majoring in Applied math. Tuan Kieu is born and raised in Hanoi. He is currently a junior student in USC Marshall majoring in administration. Derek Lin is born in Northern California and grew up in Fresno. He is currently pursuing a bachelor of arts in communication at Annenberg School at USC with three minors, computer programming, cinematic arts and consumer behavior. [Profiler bio]
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