Ed Veiluva sponsored the family, which was resettled in Oklahoma as political refugees.īy 1981, Nguyen earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University. Navy and Marine Corps troops took care of the family as they made their way through Guam, along with thousands of other refugees, before being sponsored for relocation in the United States. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the officer and Nguyen escaped to the United States.
The young boy was taken in by his uncle, a colonel in the South Vietnamese Air Force. When night fell, he escaped the scene and avoided the communist guerrillas. Nine-year-old Huan Nguyen stayed next to his mother for two hours after the murders. The campaign, one of the largest of the Vietnam War, led to intense fighting and heavy casualties in cities and towns across the South. 31, 1968, as Vietnamese celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Tet as it is known locally, Communist forces launched a wave of coordinated surprise attacks across South Vietnam. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the National Police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also known as Bay Lop) on a Saigon street, early in the Tet Offensive. 1, 1968, file photo, South Vietnamese Gen.
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