IT IS YOUR DUTY TO REMEMBER After over four decades of refuge in the U.S., most of us are contented with our lives here – a life that none of us had planned for. However, as the first generation of Vietnamese Americans, we are living in this country on borrowed time. It is because, deep…
A Letter from a Lost Soul MIA Dear Mom and Dad, How long has it been that my soul longs for you every day? I was shipped to Nam with a special oath to fight in a place where bombs and jets pounding days and nights. It has been 50 years that the daily sounds…
TÂM SỰ CHA MẸ GIÀ Các con yêu, Các con hãy cố gắng chăm sóc cho ta và hãy cố gắng thông cảm cho ta cho đến cái ngày mà các con thấy ta đã già yếu! “Nếu ta ăn uống có vương vãi, nếu ta ăn mặc có luộm thuộm, hãy kiên nhẫn!” —…
Go to America (To All H.O. Vietnamese Wives) Tonight, it seemed that nobody in Mr. Thanh’s family could fall sleep. Their four children had been in their bedroom for a long time but the lights were still on. Mrs. Mai, Mr’s Thanh’s wife, kept going to the place where the suitcases were, opened them and…
Đi Mỹ (Tặng tất cả người mẹ đi Mỹ theo diện HO) Cả gia đình ông Thành tối nay dường như không ai ngủ được. Bốn đứa con thì đã vào phòng ngủ lâu rồi nhưng đèn vẫn còn sáng. Bà Mai, vợ ông Thành, thì cứ đi ra đi vô phòng ngủ đến chỗ…
My dear children, You should try to care for me and try to be sympathetic to me when the day you see me old and weak! “If I am messy with my meals, if I am sloppy with my clothes, please be patient” – You must know that I spent so much time teaching you…
