Kim Le and Duc Le
Recorded
May 27, 2021
Archived
May 27, 2021
47:11 minutes
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Id:
mby020728
Description
Kim Le (37) talks with her father, Duc Le (69), about his work during the Vietnam War, his last day in Vietnam, and his experience coming to the United States.Subject Log / Time Code
DL talks about his experience during the Vietnam War and tells the story of his last day in Vietnam, May 30, 1975.
DL continues to talk about his last day in Vietnam.
DL talks about leaving Saigon on a US Navy ship.
DL talks about arriving in Guam then going to the Philippines before flying to Pennsylvania.
DL talks about his expectations of what the United States would be like before he arrived.
DL talks about how he learned English while in Vietnam.
DL discusses what he did when he first arrived in the US and talks about the job he had as a cashier in a grocery store and the job he had in a nursing home.
DL talks about the band, Motherland, that he was in when he arrived in Wichita, Kansas. He also talks about people he knew at that time with whom he is still in contact.
DL talks about some of the hardest things about leaving Vietnam and coming to the United States. He also talks about his feelings about the United States now and about the dreams he had when he first came to the US.
DL shares the advice he would like to give to KL.
Participants
- Kim Le
- Duc Le