Nguyen, Trinh (Interview outline and video), 2009

Smither, James (Interviewer)

WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)

Trinh Nguyen was born in a rural village in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. After attending a school at a French military outpost, Nguyen went traveled to Saigon to go to college. After a single year of dentistry schooling, Nguyen joined the South Vietnamese police force, where he worked through the entirety of the Vietnam War. Following the Northern victory, the communists gathered all former employees of the South Vietnamese government, including Nguyen, and placed them in re-education camps. In reality, the camps were nothing more than prisons. Nguyen stayed in the camp until 1982 before his release and he and his family stayed in Vietnam until 1992, when they immigrated to the United States.

2009-12-03

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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