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Title
A Lucky ARVN Veteran from Saigon to the US
Tuan Nguyen
Contributor
Cuellar, Sofia
He, Yuping
Banet, Ben
Li, Dan
Publication Information
http://anotherwarmemorial.com/tuan-nguyen/
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
Sofia Cuellar studies International Relations at USC. Dan Li majors in Business Administration and is an active member of Undergraduate Student Government. Ben Benet is a GeoDesign major and Environmental Studies minor. Yuping studies Business Administration at USC Marshall. [Profiler bio]
Tuan Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1953. He graduated from high school and started studying law in Sigon. However, Tuan was drafted in the ARVN in 1972 at the age of 19. After serving in the army for about one and a half years, Tuan moved up to become a Second Lieutenant in February 1975. Tuan fled Saigon with his mother and other relatives in April 29, 1975 with a US Navy ship. Tuan made several stops before he settled in the US. He stayed at a refugee camp in Guam, where he found a family in a Lutheran Church that sponsored him and his mother. Tuan was assigned to a small town in Illinois at first. He moved around the country for several year until he settle in Souther California. He got married in 1991and had one daughter and one son. [Profile bio]
Type
image
Format
1 image
2 video files (00:15:10)
2 transcripts
Identifier
nguyentuan-profileimage
nguyentuan-vid1
nguyentuan-vid1_tr1
nguyentuan-vid2
nguyentuan-vid2_tr2
http://doi.org/10.25549/viet-c80-523
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/nguyentuan-profileimage.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Military
Law
Refugee
Refugee camp
Draft
Time Period
1968
Place
California
Illinois
Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
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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