February 2009
Of Pirates And Freedom
By Becky Coffey | The Day
OLD SAYBROOK, CONNECTICUT – Thirty years later, Vu Nguyen of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, admits he still awakes some nights from a nightmare, reliving events from his life during the war and from his harrowing escape from his family farm outside Saigon to a freedom and a new life in the west in 1978.
Rare Immune System Disease Claims Hawaii Woman’s 3 Sons
By Curtis Lum | The Honolulu Advertiser
HAWAII – For some 15 years, Lani Nguyen bore the burden of knowing that her sons were likely to die before reaching adulthood.
Try Cooking Some Vietnamese Food In Your Kitchen
By Rebekah Denn | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – For years, Thoa Nguyen cooked Vietnamese food for her own family, but told the stories of other cuisines in her professional life.
Bass’s Spy Who Loved Us: Truth More Thrilling than Fiction
From University at Albany
Pham Xuan An was a political correspondent for Time magazine and its last bureau chief in Saigon. He observed the Vietnam War and reported on it, becoming close friends with American journalists and South Vietnamese generals, all the while leading a double life as a spy.
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