Anh Duong, Out Of Debt

Posted By: harrison_brown @ 06/23/2008 12:19:24 PM

Comment: We can see the life of a victim of a war.
She becomes a war scientist to kill more human beings (a clear psycho proof: a mass-killer try to avoid her childs from violence)
Further, she feels being indept to the people who destroyed her homeland (maybe she never see the whole picture of a war, just her family picture)
Just so sorry for such a victim and such a generation who are closing their eyes to see the true world and betraying toward their ancestor because of the bias media coveraging their life.

Posted By: scotty_ng1 @ 12/16/2007 12:07:25 PM

Comment: I am a child of South Vietnamese refugees and I have also heard of Anh Duong's story. While I am very happy that she was able to escape the horrible war and make a good life for herself and her family in America, I draw different conclusions from her story than Mr. Will. What debt does she or other refugees owe America? How dare he. What do we really owe America, the country that promised South Vietnam protection and victory, then abandoned the fight a decade later after destroying the countryside and finding themselves unable to defeat under-equipped insurgents? In fact, America owes a debt to immigrants, for all their billions of dollars in taxes, economic contributions, and research discoveries. America really needs to learn a thing or two about paying back debts. Another example is Iraq, where we have accepted fewer refugees (who in many cases risked their lives to help us) than even tiny Sweden.

More South Vietnamese died from American hands than the Viet Cong. American planes dropped more tonnage on South Vietnamese soil than the Communist North, leaving some areas as virtual moonscapes and uninhabitable for decades. Most Viets are Buddhist, and that faith stringently advocates pacifism. I do mourn for the US and ARVN soldiers who died trying to defend the freedom of others, but history is never so black-and-white. I know immigrants and descendants of immigrants should be grateful to their generous hosts, but I can think of other nonviolent ways to give back than design deadlier bombs for a new counterinsurgency war that will kill strangers half a world away (and some of the victims are always innocent bystanders).

Posted By: votenic @ 12/12/2007 6:05:03 PM

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Posted By: tanht @ 12/12/2007 3:11:28 PM

Comment: Thank you, Anh Duong, for expressing the feelings of millions of South Vietnamese people and for your achievements. I, like you, was a young refugee to America. You are truly heroic, may you continue to live the life that your freedom has brought you.

However, it saddens me to constantly hear the American media and public refer to the Viet Nam War as an American War when 260,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and millions of South Vietnamese people died for South Viet Nam and when we, former South Vietnamese people, lost our country. It was a civil war and the wrong side won.

Posted By: tanht @ 12/12/2007 2:56:46 PM

Comment: Thank you, Anh Duong, for expressing the feelings of millions of South Vietnamese people and for your achievements. I, like you, was a young refugee to America. You are truly heroic, may you continue to live the life that you freedom has brought you.

However, it saddens me to constantly hear the American media and public refer to the Viet Nam War as an ???American War??? when 260,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and millions of South Vietnamese people died for South Viet Nam??? and when we, former South Vietnamese people, lost our country. It was a civil war and the wrong side won.

Posted By: tanht @ 12/12/2007 2:55:24 PM

Comment: Thank you, Anh Duong, for expressing the feelings of millions of South Vietnamese people and for your achievements. I, like you, was a young refugee to America. You are truly heroic, may you continue to live the life that you freedom has brought you.

However, it saddens me to constantly hear the American media and public refer to the Viet Nam War as an ???American War??? when 260,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and millions of South Vietnamese people died for South Viet Nam??? and when we, former South Vietnamese people, lost our country. It was a civil war and the wrong side won.

Posted By: jojoc10 @ 12/10/2007 4:01:47 PM

Comment: Amazing story. There are thousands more just like this that are untold. Let this be a lesson to all Americans that while we are citizens either by birth or naturalization, we all are indebted to people like Anh and those names on the Vietnam Memorial. Rather than worrying about what the national identity of this nation should look like (white, black, hispanic, christian, muslim, buddhist, english, spanish etc...) let's do something productive and ensure that we leave something behind that might mean something to those who died so others could live.