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ABSTRACT
INTERVIEWEE
NAME: Bui Van Trong and Le Nguyet Trinh # 4700.0989
IDENTIFICATION:
INTERVIEWER: Dudley R. Meier, Jr.
PROJECT: Americans in
DATE: 11/29/75
FOCUS
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ABSTRACT:
Tape 1444, Side A
Trinh lived in Saigon
until communist takeover; getting out of Vietnam; journey to US; refugee camp; waiting for US sponsor; Trinh was a
nurse in Vietnam, decided to volunteer
in Army hospital; worked for Catholic relief services in Saigon; in US, worked with
Vietnamese families, matching with sponsors; finding sponsor for Trinh's
family; waiting for security clearance;
arriving in Louisiana; she and her husband got jobs at local hospital; work as technician in hospital,
can't work as nurse yet; wants to work in nursing in US, needs better salary;
grew up in poor family; father died around time she graduated from nursing
school; hospitals she and her husband worked at in Vietnam; husband's work as
lawyer, then decided to be a teacher; husband's teaching career; had four
children; Trong couldn't afford to stay home with
children for long; Vietnam's dependence on
French, then American, aid; husband speaks in Vietnamese; Vietnamese have
long valued their independence; differences between Vietnamese communists and
other communists; differences between US and Vietnam; restrictions communists
placed on Vietnamese; comparison of Vietnamese governments; speculation on
future of Vietnam, in Vietnamese; influence of Russia and China on Vietnam;
situation in Vietnam has improved and will continue to improve; Vietnam should
model program after Marshall Tito's program
for Yugoslavia; swiftness of communist takeover, fall of Saigon; US
programs to prepare for Vietnamese refugees; husband worked in military medical
hospital in Vietnam; was head nurse of regiment; differences in attitudes
between them and their children; longtime war in
Tape 1444, Side B
1,000 years
of Chinese rule; religious beliefs, place of religion in Vietnam; Buddhists and
Catholics;
Cao Dai religion; importance of family in Vietnam, dependency on family; how
Americans feel about Vietnamese refugees in US.
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