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Oral History of Paul Chi Hoang
No full textAn oral history with Mr. Paul Chi Hoang, a graduate of Divine Word College at Epworth, Iowa where he majored in Philosophy. The interview focused on his experiences as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese who migrated to America for a better life. The Vietnam War caused many negative impacts in his life but also shaped his career goals. He believes that storytelling is an important aspect of preserving history and therefore, volunteered to participate in the Vietnamese American Oral History Project.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Mary Hoang Long
No full textAn oral history with Mrs. Mary Hoang Long set in Westminster, California. This interview focused on her experiences as a first generation Vietnamese American moving to America as a result of the Vietnam War. She did not describe the actual war because she did not actually experience it but described the effects of the war on her family’s flourishing business. Her childhood experiences in Vietnam are compared and contrasted to her new life in America. She emphasizes on culture shocks and adaptation as well as preservation of Vietnamese traditions to pass onto future generations.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Quynh-Trang Nguyen
No full textAn interview with Ms. Quynh-Trang Nguyen focused on her immigration stories and media experiences in the United States. She is a part of the one and a half generation of Vietnamese Americans. She studied linguistics and French at San Diego State University, and Computer Information Science at Coleman College. She is a cofounder of Little Saigon T.V. and Radio. She started the first Vietnamese Satellite Television called Vietnamese Broadcasting Network. Currently, she is a business consultant and does contract work.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Marjolaine Feierbacher
No full textAn oral history with Ms. Marjolaine Feierbacher, born in 1958, a mother of two. She lived in Vietnam until the age of 17 and has many vivid memories of Vietnam's past. In addition, she is a former refugee who spent time at American military bases like Camp Pendleton. Her family was one of the first families to come over to the United States by C-131. In Vietnam her family belonged to the South Vietnamese landowning class. She is volunteering her story along with much of her family's story for that sake of future generations and to preserve the culture of Vietnam that she carries with her.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Luong Van Ty
No full textOral history of Mr. Luong Van Ty (Ty Van Luong, western-style), born in 1932 in South Vietnam. He grew up in Saigon in a middle class family with a Chinese father, Vietnamese mother, and 5 siblings. His interview focused on early years in Saigon, his experience in the Army Reserves and later as an artist who was commissioned to create a large painting of former South Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem that was hung in the presidential palace. His interview also elaborates on his experience leaving Vietnam in 1975 and resettlement in Southern California. He worked many different jobs including a portrait artist of Movieland Museum and owned various businesses, including a Vietnamese-language television station for 25 years. After his retirement he refocused his energy on painting and at the time of interview was learning sculpture.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Binh Truong
No full textAn oral history with Mr. Binh Truong, a graduate of a community college in Washington State where he majored in aerospace engineering and graduated at top honors with a 4.3 GPA. The interview focuses on his early life in Vietnam as a pilot in the Vietnamese Air Force, his time in Camp Pendleton where he was later sponsored by a family in Washington, his experience balancing two jobs in college and graduating with the top honors, and his many careers that followed. I wanted to focus on his experience as a pilot in the Vietnamese Air Force but found that he had many other interesting stories that were equally as important to his life experience.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Loan Pham Thai
No full textAn oral history with Mrs. Loan Pham Thai, a loving mother and grandmother of eight children and thirteen grandchildren. This interview focused on her experiences in Vietnam during the war, and the difficulties of escaping to come to the United States. She, along with the rest of her family, were boat people who traveled Indonesia where they were then sponsored to come to the United States. From there, she and her family adapted to the American lifestyle and prospered from there through their experiences and hardship.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Loan Thi Kim Nguyen
No full textAn oral history with Mrs. Loan Thi Kim Nguyen, a manicurist in San Dimas, California and a mother to three daughters. This interview focused on her experience in Vietnam during the war when she was in her early teens, after the war focusing on how her life had changed post-war, and her journey she had in order to live in her current town of Duarte, California.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Ysa Le
No full textAn oral history was conducted with Ysa Le, Executive Director at the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in the city of Santa Ana. The interview focused on her early memories of Vietnam and departure from her homeland to France and her journey from France to the United States, as her family continues to start a new life. She is participating in the Vietnamese American Oral History Project in order to preserve her family history.Recorded Digitall
