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Vietnamese American Oral History Project, UC Irvine

Narrator: JOHN DO Interviewer: Bob Nguyen Date: January 1, 2017 Location: Westminster, California Sub-collection: Vietnamese American Experience Course, Spring 2017 Length of interview: 01:45:50

ABSTRACT

An oral history with Mr. John Do, born in 1930 in Saigon, . He was an officer in the military and served his country from 1950-1975. After the collapse of South Vietnam, he was imprisoned for 10 years in various reeducation camps and was released in 1985. He discussed his memories of South Vietnam before 1975 and his experiences in reeducation camp. He also discussed how his family left Vietnam through the Orderly Departure Program in 1992 due to his time in reeducation camp. After coming to the , he became a machinist in an oil refinery and retired at the age of 70. He has 5 children and lives in Westminster, California with his wife.

ABSTRACT (another sample) Oral history of Mr. Nguyen Dinh Cuong (or Cuong Dinh Nguyen, western-style) who was born in in 1942. His family migrated to Dalat after the Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into north and south. Most of his education was attained in Dalat. He became a teacher and met his wife, also a teacher, at a school where he taught. They had a son in 1975 and fled Vietnam by boat in 1977, arriving in a make-shift refugee camp in Taman Muara, . They were resettled to County, California where he had a brother already there. He continued his schooling and became a civil engineer, added one more child (daughter) to the family, and settled in Cerritos, California. At the time of interview he is retired and remains active in the Buddhist community as well as alumni associations and hosts a show on Vietnamese radio.

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