Life In Vietnam
Life In Vietnam
Everything from food carts, school, the city, and the countryside; hear what everyday life was like before the exodus of the Boat People, and all that was lost along with their homeland.
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Everything from food carts, school, the city, and the countryside; hear what everyday life was like before the exodus of the Boat People, and all that was lost along with their homeland.
So after April 30th (the fall of the South), it was very sad. The Viet Cong made us get rid of all of our books, calling them obscene. I loved those books though...
[Huong Hoang]: Let’s talk about food, like the other day you were saying here in Alberta we eat so much meat. How was it when you were in Vietnam?
[Vi Nguyen]: No, no way. We didn’t really have meat to eat in Vietnam. Usually everyday at home, we were around 7 or 8, we had maybe 100 grams of meat between us?
[...] at the time, China was invading the North of Vietnam. And so the government was conscripting anyone over the age of eighteen for the war. After he finished high school, your uncle got the papers telling him to report for duty. Your grandma asked uncle Thiep if he’d rather wait, or take a boat and leave. He chose to leave.