This webpage is to tell you the tough
life of a man who grew up during the years of the bloodiest
war in Vietnam history, with 9 years as a combat infantryman,
and 10 years of hard labor, starving and torturing in
Communist concentration camps.
The links in the left column lead
to Vietnamese version of the site. If you prefer English to
Vietnamese, please, follow the links below.
Thanks for visiting my site, hope
you will enjoy it and find some helpful information on Vietnam
War.
Special thanks to the
soldiers of Vietnamese and American Armed Forces and other
allied forces who fought in the Vietnam War, and those who
are still struggling for democracy and freedom for my
people.
Lagon’s assessment, made during
a May 7 meeting on international law, may represent a shift
in how Vietnam is viewed. Besides being a “source country
for women and children trafficked for commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor,” as the State Department
reports, Vietnam’s regime is increasingly seen as being too
cozy with labor export firms who send tens of thousands of
workers to abusive host countries.
Nguyen
herself remembers being a daughter trying to do right by her
struggling family, just like in “The Tale of Kieu,” the
Vietnamese epic poem about a young woman sacrificing herself
to save her loved ones. Nguyen once followed to Taiwan a
lady dressed as splendidly then as she herself is now, in
order to earn money to support her family.
On March 30,
2007, Father Nguyen Van Ly - a Catholic priest was brought
to the trial at Hue without any defense attorney. His only
"Crime" is to challenge the communist regime as he has been
struggling for religious freedom and human rights for
decades in Vietnam. He had been imprisoned several times and
was under house arrested and violently harassed.
During the trial,
Father Ly kept sitting instead of standing before the
judges. As he began to denounce the unjust trial and shout
the anti-Communist slogan, the security agent behind him
covered his mouth in front of hundreds of attendees,
including some Western reporters.
He was sentenced
to 8 years in prison. Four other dissidents were sentenced
suspension to 6 years in prison.
What do we see
from this image? It's the bloody hands of the Communist
regime that have covered the people voices for more than
half a century. I see the end of
Vietnamese Communist regime is imminent.
Educating
the next generation is one of our foremost concerns.
The purposes are to make our children understand why we are here,
why they must be proud of the culture and history of our fatherland,
and to get ready to take the leadership of
the Vietnamese
American Community
Letter to Mrs Barbara Sonneborn, the maker of the film
"REGRET TO INFORM"
THE FORGOTTEN
Barbara Sonnerborn, an American
widow, went to Vietnam to visit the battlefield where in 1972, her
husband Jeff Gurvits was KIA. There she made
the movie Regret to Inform to express her deep sympathy to the
women who had lost their men in the war. The film doesn't stop at
this point. It goes further to accuse the allied forces of
killing innocent people, burning hamlets, raping women but she
ignores the crimes committed by the North Vietnamese and the
Viet Cong. It turned out to be a propaganda tool for the
Vietnamese Communists. Before the film would be showed to the
public, the PBS/KLRU at Austin invited four Vietnam Veterans
to a 30 minute discussion panel to express their negative
reaction. Michael Do is one of the team. The discussion panel
was hosted by Tom Spencer. Here is the letter from Do to Mrs.
Sonneborn
Picture,
from left to right: Patrick Reilly (USMC), Michael Do (VNAF),
Ron Fiesler (Infantry), Ms. Lai Tran (war widow), and Tom
Spencer (PBS)
The video
clip lasts more than 30 minutes, You can view the first 5
minutes by clicking the link below
The Vietnamese
American population has been notably growing in Texas,
particularly in metropolitan Houston, Dallas, and Austin.
Thus, there
arose the concern about gang activities among Viet youth.
Michael Do was invited to talk at the 1994 Conference of
Central Texas Gang Units on how to deal with Young Vietnamese
American gang members.
Right after the Vietnam
War ended in April 1975, dozens of high ranking officers chose
the death rather than to surrender to the enemies in defending
their moral integrity. Generals Le Van Hung, Le Nguyen Vy,
Nguyen Khoa Nam, Pham Van Phu, Tran Van Hai, Ho Ngoc Can, to
name a few. In the so-called re-education camps throughout the
country, we have learned numerous cases that our fellow
detainees stood up against the Communist cadres for the
righteousness without fear of being killed. As a result, many
were isolated in the darkness and murdered mercilessly.
The death of Captain Quach Duoc
Thanh is one of such cases
”It
is not the loss of lives through fighting, but the true
casualty is far more reaching. The war didn't stop with
the loss of South Vietnam. It didn't stop with the loss
of my father. The loss extends to me, my siblings, my father's
family, my cousins, my children, my children's children.
The loss is immeasurable. That is the true cost of
war.”
(Letters removed per author's request)
Annual Conference on Vietnam
2001
GIVE BACK DIGNITY TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT IN
THE VIETNAM WAR
In
the 2001 Annual Conference on Vietnam at the
International Cultural Center, by Texas
Tech University/The Vietnam Center. Michael Do was one of 3
Luncheon Speakers before more than 300 distinguished
guests.
How
did the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces carry out the
Political Warfare in Vietnam War? Presented at the 4th
Triennial Symposium on Vietnam at Lubbock Civic Center, hosted
by the Vietnam Center of Texas Tech University in
2002
News 8 Austin interviewed Michael Do as
Vietnamese American community at Austin commemorated the 3oth
anniversary of the fall of Vietnam on April 30th, 2005.
Apart from some elements that are
considered feudal and outdated, the philosophy – modified and
adapted to changing circumstances – are still precious and
indestructible. It will be very useful to those who wish to
devote themselves to a noble cause, those who have ambition
that the old people should be able to live in peace, all
friends should be loyal, and all young the young people should
love their elders
A group of Vietnamese nationalists
interrupted an Asian-ambassador panel discussion about trade
and Politics Friday by protesting the totalitarian
government of Vietnam.
Austin
(Texas) November 11, 2004. To celebrate the Veterans Day and
the Resolutions of the State of Texas/Travis County/City of
Austin recognizing the Nationalist Vietnamese flag (Yellow
background with 3 red stripes), 300 Vietnamese
American from major cities of Texas marched on Congress
avenue of the capitol city of Austin in a biggest parade of
the decade.
Nguyen
herself remembers being a daughter trying to do right by her
struggling family, just like in “The Tale of Kieu,” the
Vietnamese epic poem about a young woman sacrificing herself
to save her loved ones. Nguyen once followed to Taiwan a
lady dressed as splendidly then as she herself is now, in
order to earn money to support her family.
Austinites Gathering to
celebrate the Human Rights Torch at the South Step of
State Capitol, April 20, 2008
The Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall
Educating
the next generation is one of our foremost concern
Vietnamese American Community in Fort Worth Dallas to
Protest the Red Flag at University of Texas at Arlington
