The Children Left Behind
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During the ten year period of the United States involvement in Vietnam, some of the United States soldiers and civilians stationed in Vietnam fathered thousands of children with Vietnamese women. These children (Amerasians) that were left behind had distinct American physical features. Because of t ....
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.... from the movies, when a bunch of
kids hiding behind bushes jumped out and beat him up’”… “The
parents of these children do nothing about this torment because
they assume his mother was a prostitute, so they feel he
deserves it” (DeBonis 60-61).
Joe did attend school up until the fourth grade, at which time his family moved from Saigon to Long Thanh, he was denied the right to attend. He was told, “No, you can’t go, you don’t have any paper work plus you’re ‘My Lai’ ....
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