THE FATE OF THE HYBRID CHILD WHOSE FATHER IS A VIETNAM VETERAN OF AMERICA AND MOTHER IS A VIETNAMESE- CHILDREN OF THE VIETNAM WAR — VIETNAM VETERAN OF AMERICA.
March 29, 1975, when the last American soldiers left Saigon, they left their children — resulting from a love affair with Vietnamese women. After the restoration of peace, the United States carried out several campaigns to help these veterans reunite with about 21,000 children of Vietnamese origin. However, the Washington Post said that hundreds of offspring are still living in Vietnam, for many objective reasons, and have never known the presence of three intestines. Over the past 40 years, babies have grown up and carried on the complexity of their hair, skin color and the estrangement of their peers. “I wondered why you teased me so many times, I was so angry and I wanted to hit them, and I told them I was my stepmother, my mother’s face was very sad, but my grandparents loved me. , 1 “baby” hybrid confided. Although they have often been rejected by society for their strange looks, they still hope to get help with DNA data. This helps the “baby” hybrid reunion with parents, foreigners, US soldiers who participated in the war in Vietnam four decades ago. We would like to invite you to read some post-war stories, about special “baby” hybrids.
1990 — Jim, an Amerasian and a Vietnamese mother holding a photo of her with her American husband, Jim’s father. This family is warm until the father decides to return to the old family that he always hides. Photo by Catherine Karnow.
Cu Teo — A Vietnamese American child in 1989
Cu Teo lives with his adoptive parents Tran Van Bao and Tran Thi Hang on small land about 10 km north of Ben Tre. He dropped out of school as a farmer like every other farmer in the area because he often teased teasing about his crossing. Cu Teo was abandoned by a mother in a forest when she was evacuated from Kontum in the last days of the Vietnam War in 1975 when she was only 5 years old. After the war, some people offered to “buy” this American boy but were rejected. When he met the reporter, Cu Teo fled, and only calmed down knowing that the stranger came here not to catch himself.
During the Vietnam War, much military personnel, military service personnel, and US agencies in South Vietnam “mated” with local women and gave birth to Vietnamese offspring. — America. Most of those children grew up in a situation where there was no father when Americans withdrew from Vietnam.
Nguyen Thi Xuan Trang and Nguyen Anh Tuan were children of Nguyen Thi Hop and Robert Z. Lewis, from South Carolina who served in the US Air Force unit based in Can Tho. Hop has lived with his mistress for several years, knowing that he has a wife and two children in the US. Robert did not contact her, despite promising her to live in the United States. Until 1985, Hop and her two children lived in Ho Chi Minh City at a temporary house.
Le Thi Ut, 13, is the daughter of Le Thi Mai with a black American soldier. Besides Ut, Mai has many other children with a Vietnamese man. Le Thi Ut is currently attending Vinh Phu Primary School in Ben Tre Province, where she is a senior class teacher. You know very little about your father — who is not listed on enrollment — except that he was stationed in Ben Tre during the war. Ut declares that he wants to stay in Vietnam, instead of choosing to go to the US like many other crosses.
Vuong Thi My Linh and her mother, Vuong Thi Mai Phuong, who worked as staff members at the USAID club on Tran Quy Cap Street in Saigon. My Linh’s father is Robert C. Turner, a former employee of the US Embassy in Saigon. He left Vietnam in 1973.
Le Thi Lien lives with her adoptive mother, Tran Thi Sinh, in a stationery shop in Cho Lon after her mother passed away at the age of 3 months. Father of Lien was an American engineer working in Saigon and then returned home in 1970. Upon hearing news of Lien’s mother, he financially supported Lien. But a little later, Ms. Sinh received a letter from the American engineer’s wife, writing: “Never try to contact my husband again.” He is currently studying at the school opposite his shop. She proved her talent in athletics, gymnastics and won the first prize in short distance competition in a competition.
Tuyet Mai is Nguyen’s 13-year-old daughter. He was born in Nha Trang, but lives in Vung Tau with his family. With his sister, who is 5 years old, Mai sells peanuts on the beach to tourists. The area where the children sell is the focus of Russian and Eastern European tourists, and “Western” faces help her attract more attention. Mai does not know anything about his father. After the photo was posted in Life magazine in 1985, many American veterans and some veterans’ wives demanded the publication of her identity. A man has arranged to bring Mai to the United States, despite claims that he is the father of Mai is suspected.
Vuong Tu Than is the son of Vuong Thi Phung Mai, formerly a secretary in the office of Pacific Engineering Company in Saigon. Her father, Jerry E. Martin, from the city of Dallas, Texas, left Vietnam in 1973. Mai lived with her son in a house run by her grandfather, French embassy in wartime — leave in central HCMC.
Loan Anh, a girl with an American father at her mother, Ho Thi Thu. Although living in Ben Tre, Loan Anh was born in Da Lat, where his mother worked as a teacher in the Vietnam War. She is now a tailor, and she taught her daughter. Besides learning the profession, Loan Anh is busy learning English to wait for opportunities to live in the United States.
According to the Washington Post, Dang Van Son is always subjected to abuse by his stepfather. Son often wonders why he treats him differently than the other 7 siblings. The man found the answer himself after Son’s aunt revealed that he was the son of an American soldier.
Thirty years ago, Son’s mother, Nguyen Thi Canh, arose in love with Jackson, an American soldier, when he was stationed at Long Binh base near Saigon. Son is the result of this love. After Canh died of cancer in 2000, Son went to Saigon to settle for $ 2 in his pocket. He does all the work with a small salary. But thanks to the savings, Son still accumulated enough money to open a shop producing chalks. Now he is the boss of a business and has a happy family.
When I first saw Le Thi My Thuy 15 years ago, Nguyen Thanh An knows that she is also a hybrid. An and Thuy started dating. They gave birth and got married in 2007. They live in Binh Duong province. “My husband and I are similar in past and feeling,” An, 45, said. After April 1975, an adopted family (then just a child) was adopted. However, his adoptive parents are not good people. They intend to sell An to those who want to take advantage of his origin to find the ticket to immigrate to the United States. An escape from the family. His childhood was associated with the orphanage or wandering in the streets.
Meanwhile, Thuy’s fate is like many other hybrids. When the war ended, she and her mother lived in a rural labor camp and later worked as a fishing net. An and Thuy have no information about their biological father, although they both know they were American soldiers in the war 40 years ago.
Tran Thi Huong is the son of a US Army sergeant stationed at Cam Ranh Air Base. In 1969, Huong’s father left the base, leaving his lover and daughter together. Huong has a photo taken between her and her father.
Many years after the war, with the help of An Tran, a cousin, and a group of volunteers, Huong knew his biological father was living in Cleveland, Ohio. Although Huong’s half-sister welcomed her, the gruff old father did not want to contact the daughter he left behind. According to a US government statistic, many veterans who participated in the war in Vietnam did not want to show up or just want to forget the past. Meanwhile, Huong still expects to see his father. “I really want to see Dad once. Will you meet me someday? “
In childhood, the difference in hair, skin color makes Nguyen Thi Thuy become the focus for classmates and other children teasing, bullying. Even friends called Thuy “black Americans” and stoned or used to stick to tease her. Thuy is the son of a Vietnamese woman and American soldiers. After the war ended, her biological mother had to give her daughter another family.
At age 18, Thuy found her biological mother in a town about an hour’s drive from her home. However, Thuy’s joy shattered because her mother was not happy to see her daughter. After abandoning Thuy, she married a Vietnamese man and gave birth to 5 children. She feared that Thuy’s appearance would disrupt her life. At age 42, as a mother of two daughters, aged 12 and 14, Thuy went on to find his father based on information about his identity that his mother provided. Thuy hopes DNA data will help her soon to see her father. For Thuy, the thought of reuniting with her father was the only motive for her to get through the turmoil for many years.
Nguyen Thanh Trung, 47, only known his father’s name is Sandy. He was a member of the 25th US Infantry Division in Cu Chi. Trung’s mother is a Vietnamese woman. When she was five months pregnant, the American soldier left the camp and promised that he would return to find her and her children. His mother waited for that man for 20 years. Like many women having children with US soldiers, Trung’s mother burnt out the letters and photos of her lover. Every trace of his father is no longer from that moment. Currently, Trung lives with his wife in Cu Chi. They want to immigrate to the US but have no legal papers.
Mr. Vo Huu Nhan, the offspring of an American soldier and wartime Vietnamese woman. Picture: Washington Post.
In mid-2013, when Vo Huu Nhan was driving a vegetable caravan at a floating market in the Mekong Delta, he received a surprise call from the United States. The person on the other end of the line reported the shock: Results of DNA analysis confirmed that an American veteran is the three guts of Nhan.
“After hearing the news, I could not hold back my tears,” said Nhan, 46, who has been missing for more than 40 years. Since the age of 10, he only knew that his father was an American soldier and named Bob through his mother’s narrative.
March 29, 1975, when the last American soldiers left Saigon, they left their children — resulting from a love affair with Vietnamese women. After the restoration of peace, the United States carried out several campaigns to help these veterans reunite with about 21,000 children of Vietnamese origin.
However, the Washington Post said that hundreds of offspring are still living in Vietnam, for many objective reasons, and have never known the presence of three intestines. Over the past 40 years, babies have grown up and carried on the complexity of their hair, skin color and the estrangement of their peers.
“I wondered why you teased me so many times, I was so angry and I wanted to hit them, and I told them I was my stepmother, my mother’s face was very sad, but my grandparents loved me. , Nhan confided.
After having five children, the desire to meet the three intestines increasingly intense in his heart Nhan. In 2012, Nhan from An Giang to Ho Chi Minh City to meet a woman of Vietnamese origin can help him find three.
That woman was Trista Goldberg, a Vietnamese child who had been taken from her homeland at the end of the war. She builds a reunion project called Operation Reunite to help herds and babies find their families through a DNA bank.
Papers and photos of Nhan’s three were lost during the war. Memory also fades with age. Thus, DNA results are the only ray of hope for Amerasians like Nhan.
The secret of American veterans
Bob Thedford joined the Vietnam War in the 1960s. When he returned home, he married a woman named Louise.
One day, Louise accidentally found a picture of a Vietnamese girl in her husband’s wallet. Linh informs Louise that Bob may be having a baby with her during her time on the battlefield.
Bob later admitted to the family that he met Nhan’s mother on an occasion at an airbase in Quy Nhon.
His memory of Vietnamese women is not much. Like most veterans, he rarely mentions the fierce fighting days in Vietnam.
On the fall of 2013, Louise received a report saying that her husband and Mr. Nhan had a sexual relationship. The people in the Thedford family were very surprised. Amanda Hazel, a half-sister of Nhan, even exclaimed, “Are you sure this is not a scam?”
However, when they received pictures of Nhan, all doubts disappeared. Mr. Nhan looks very much like Bob’s missing father.
The contacts between the two American families in America halfway around the world quickly took place. Mr. Nhan did not know English, so he asked a translator to translate the text and translate the conversation. During the first Skype call, both men stopped crying. “When I see you, I immediately feel that this is my father,” Nhan said.
In December 2013, Nhan submitted the DNA test results to the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City to request a re-examination of his case. Meanwhile, Bob’s health deteriorated and he was hospitalized for cancer.
Amanda Hazel told his brother, “Your health is still stable, now you can sit in a chair, my family is taking care of you, I’m sorry I did not try to contact you earlier. Dad and mother always remember about him. “
For the veteran of the 67-year veteran, finding his son was his greatest comfort. While being treated at a Texas hospital, Bob occasionally showed his nanny “showing off” to the nurses: “This is my son in Vietnam.”
Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy still remembers the impression of her baby. Each time his father returned home, he usually hugged his two younger brothers, but he never hugged her.
“I also love you, he never scolded or beat but he did not a stroke, ever loving — she Thuy, who is a tailor in Dang Nguyen Can District (District 6, HCMC), recount — often He hugged the children to hold the column to look at the house “.
Only in grade 5, Thuy knew that she was a mixed-race and was the result of the love between mother and an American soldier at the base of Binh Long. Her mother was then an inspector at the base. In October 1972, after completing the military service, Ms. Thuy’s three intestines returned home and her mother stayed.
At home, her biological father was still in touch with her family, but due to housing conditions in the slums in Thi Nghe, her family often contacted a person at a church outside the main road.
After 1975, when she migrated, Thuy’s family also lost contact with her father. The only information Thuy learns is that he is in Texas, leaving most of his papers after the war. At home, she still has some yellow photos of the banquet on the wedding day between her mother and her biological father, which has a clear three is not the mother image.
When Ms. Thuy’s mother went away, she was brought to live in Long An. Although the cross, her face, and skin Thuy is not so different from other Vietnamese children should not be teased or alienated as many other hybrids.
Phuong Thuy was abandoned on the steps of an orphanage from the time she was born. Photo by Catherine Karnow.
The photo was taken with Huynh Thi Chut when they met at Camp Tien Sha, Danang, which Mr. Gary Wittig retained over 48 years. They met again in America with their daughters after nearly five decades.
Gary Wittig met Huynh Thi Chut when he returned to Vietnam during the second military strike. A little girl was born after the American soldier left Vietnam. Nearly 50 years later, all three were reunited in America.
The reunion took place earlier this month when Mrs. Chut made her first trip to America to see the man who was lying on her bed and breathing through her breathing tube. Their daughter, Nguyen Thi Kim Nga — now 48 years old, flew from Nebraska to the United States to reunite with her parents.
Mrs. Chut met Mr. Gary after 48 years at a house in suburban Atlanta, according to Gary’s niece, Christine Kimmey, “was wonderful. No words can describe that moment. “
Gary and Mrs. Chut used Facetime to talk a few times before they were actually holding hands at a house in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. It was a reunion after nearly half a century but they could not talk to each other. There are many stories because both grandparents do not speak each other’s language.
Mrs. Chut and Gary, like many Vietnamese women and other American soldiers, met in a decade-long undeclared war will probably never find each other if not by one. the same child as Nga.
Like Russia, hundreds of thousands of young Vietnamese and American women were born in the war and suffered no parental or discriminatory behavior. Although most Amerasians have been to the United States or adopted by American families, few have found their biological father like her Russian.
“God sent me angels,” the father calls her “Angel.”
Mrs. Chut put her hand on Gary’s shoulder and began to massage his chest. They looked at each other and smiled. They just sat there saying nothing and smiled. “
Ms. Nga finally found her father. Gary says his father’s DNA is more than 99% identical.
Watch some last moments of hybrids in Babylift before leaving Saigon.
Babies left Saigon 40 years ago, very small, crying in the nursery or dress shirt volunteers on the way to Tan San Nhat airport.
Orphaned or fathered American soldiers waiting to be taken to the airport during Operation Babylift 40 years ago. Washington approved the campaign to send thousands of children to the United States and other countries for adoption in April 1975.
Babysitter at Holt House in Saigon before the war ended. This orphanage carries a lot of hybrids, children of American soldiers with Vietnamese girls.
Innocent smile of a boy in Babylift. The children in this campaign became adopted by families in the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada. Many children are lucky to find parents. Most of us do not know who was born since leaving Saigon when he was too young.
American volunteers carrying Vietnamese youngsters prepared to board the plane left Saigon on 5/4/1975. According to a study by the University of Ohio, 76% of Vietnamese war children want to see their father when they come to the United States. Only 30% know the name of the father, 22% try to contact and only 3% reunite with the birth. Many American veterans do not want to see their child abandoned for fear, trouble or irresponsibility. Photo: AP
Bring the foreign mother just carried, led the baby at Tan Son Nhat airport, preparing to travel to the United States on 5/4/1975. A tragedy has taken place in Child Airways flights. On 4/4/1975, the US government’s C5A plane crashed after taking off, causing 78 children and several adults to die. The campaign continues until April 26 of the same year. Photo: AP
A baby crying on his mother’s hand when he was taken to the Tan Son Nhat airport during Operation Babylift on April 5, 1975.
The moments of the last orphan and young Vietnamese hybrid before leaving the motherland. The children on the plane that day was over 40 years old.
Babylift children set out for the airport.
Boys cry in the hands of an American woman while the other sisters stand under the blazing sun of Saigon in April 1975.
The nurse places the children in the box, puts on a seat belt and places it on the seat. Many members of Babylift have the opportunity to return home to find their roots, visit houses of compassion, attend events to meet people in the same scene to connect the past with the present.
In early April 1975, the US military launched Operation Babylift to send thousands of Vietnamese children out of their homeland.
An American employee puts the children in boxes, fastening their belts, before boarding the plane. Washington claims that the majority of children they leave Vietnam are orphans of all ages. They may lose their father, mother due to war, abandonment, or child of American soldiers with Vietnamese women during wartime. On April 2, 1975, the first flight of nearly 60 children in Operation Babylift took off. A day later, President Ford officially approved the campaign. Photo: DIA.mil
Operation Babylift crashed in Saigon after taking off on April 4. C5A was the world’s largest transport aircraft of its time. Photo: Vietnambabylift
The tail section of the C5A aircraft carrying children in the Children’s Airlift crashed in Saigon after taking off on April 4. C5A was the world’s largest transport aircraft of its time. Photo: Vietnambabylift.
Many children are too young so nurses and nurses have to put them in the box, tie the seatbelt around, and put on the seat. Despite the tragedy of aviation, US troops still conduct the campaign from 5/4 to 26/4 with more than 30 flights. The final flight of Vietnamese children departed Saigon on April 26, 1975, three days before Americans completely evacuated from Vietnam. According to US estimates, the aircraft has brought nearly 2,700 children left Vietnam. Photo: NBC.
An American woman patted the children on the flight leaving Vietnam. Later, they became adopted children in families in the United States, Canada, Australia and France. Photo: DIA.mil
An American soldier taking care of Vietnamese children on a flight leaving Saigon. Later on, the Babylift program became the subject of controversy and criticism from the American public. Photo: DIA.mil.
Critics say not all children are as orphaned as Washington asserts. In addition, many people disagree about how to behave when they separate from the country because the actions will affect their lives. Photo: DIA.mil
Vietnamese children on a flight from Saigon to San Francisco in April 1975. Photo: AFP.
President Gerald R. Fordholds a Vietnamese baby when the plane landed in the United States. Picture: Daily Beast.
Two women carrying Vietnamese children on air ambulance program in the United States. Most babylift children are taken to well-off families. Photo: AFP.
An American couple received Jennie Noone, a Vietnamese child in the Babylift program, on June 5, 1975. Noone is one of the few children on the C5A to survive the April 4 crash. For decades, despite living in the fondness of adoptive parents, Noone has constantly sought the roots, the source of himself. Picture: Daily Beast
Old Babylift members returned to Vietnam in mid-June 2005, 30 years after the plane took them out of their homeland. Decades have passed, babylift babies have grown up. Their aspiration is to find the birthplace or loved one in Vietnam. Photo: AFP.
Lyly Koening (right), a young Babylift, and her adoptive mother Karen Koening visit an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. HCM in June 2005. She is a member of the Babylift youth delegation returning to visit her hometown. Photo: AFP.
Miss Tricia Houston, a Babylift child, used DNA testing technology to find her father-in-law accidentally. Tricia first saw his father’s photo via Facebook, when a friend (also Babylift) posted a photo of him announcing that he was looking for a lost daughter of the same age and a similarity to Tricia. At the time, she still did not know for sure it was her father. “Looking at photos on Facebook, I saw a man with a sad face and was trying to find someone he had lost his whole life,” Tricia told ABC. Picture: ABC.
Babylift has always been one of the most controversial themes of the American war in Vietnam. Photo: AP.
Approximately 2,000 individual lawsuits have taken place to determine the legal rights and the parents of displaced children. However, the controversy surrounding this issue has continually challenged US courts.
Lawyer Tom Miller, who took part in the lawsuits, called the campaign “one of America’s last desperate attempts to gain sympathy from the public.”
In nearly a month of the campaign, a number of accidents and incidents caused many children to die. The most notorious of these was the CA crash on 4/4/1975 at Tan Son Nhat airport which killed about 200 children.
The “lucky” children who survive and adopted adopt many difficulties during their adulthood. Growing up with the stigma of people around because of the differences in appearance, they always longing to find the motherland and home.
“I feel different because of black hair and dark skin, you bully and insult me, I always wish I had white skin and blonde hair or brown hair like you, to be sociable and accept Like other girls, “said Tanya Mai, who was evacuated during the Babylift campaign.
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