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Title
Life in a Foreign Land
Poly Chuong
Contributor
Le, Colleen
Amaya, Danilo
Hamilton, Michael
Publication Information
http://anotherwarmemorial.com/poly-chuong/
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam
Rights Information
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Description
Colleen Le is a Vietnamese-American who is currently pursuing her B.A. in Biological Sciences.
Michael Hamilton is a Colombian-American who is currently enrolled in the Marshall School of Business. [Profiler bio]
Poly is flying high as a Junior at the University of Southern California. To reach this point, however, he and his family have needed to endure extreme hardship. His family originated in Cambodia. Poly was born in a refugee camp in Thailand before moving to a gang infested Long Beach, California. After fortunately surviving the gang life, Poly reshaped his attitude and joined the military for eight years. After receiving an honorable discharge, he went to Orange Coast College and has recently transfered to USC. He is living proof that anybody can reach the top with some hard work and luck. [Profile bio]
Type
image
Format
1 image
1 video file (00:07:35)
1 transcript
Identifier
chuongpoly-profileimage
chuongpoly-vid1
chuongpoly-vid1_tr1
http://doi.org/10.25549/viet-c80-774
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/chuongpoly-profileimage.jpg
Language
English
Subject
American
Cambodia
Gangs
Refugee
Time Period
1979
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Thailand: USA
Source
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
An Other War Memorial--Memories of the American War in Viet Nam

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