Now there's an Immigrant who's earned a great deal of respect.

He's worked hard for a chance to improve his lot in life.
I'm glad to know he made it.

Wow. No Japanese Americans fought in WWII. Carry on.

Glad he made it out. He is proud to be an American and he holds his heritage close. Nothing but an asset to this great melting pot of a society.

I'm glad for him but I do have to wonder if he ever questions the morality of the things this country did in his former homeland. Does he ever ask himself about the morality of napalming villages??? How about Agent Orange??? I wonder if he ever considers the fact that we conducted such a long, brutal war there yet, in the end, we now do business with our former enemy who was so evil we had to kill them?

I do have to wonder if he ever questions the morality of the things this country did in his former homeland

As an American of German descent, I sometimes ask myself the same thing.

Hey Danni, Redman. His father was an officer in the South Vietnamese army who believed in his country.

There were 2 sides to that conflict.

Keep pontificating BTW

BOOJIBOY no argument about that, but still, how did he feel about American jets napalming villages??? Please tell me how that was justified.
Please tell me how America wasn't off on an immoral tangent that we will regret for eternity.
Robert McNamara has taken responsibility and acknowledged we committed war crimes, if he can then why can't you?
The thing is, by not acknowledging it you enabled George W. Bush to do the same thing in Iraq.
It will just be repeated until America recognizes that we do not have the right, much less the responsibility, to determine the political future of any nation except our own.

how did he feel about American jets napalming villages???

Probably the same way I feel about the U.S. intentionally fire-bombing and killing tens of thousands of Germans in cities like Dresden when the war was already effectively won. Who do we blame for that? The great liberal hero FDR?

Who do we blame for that? The great liberal hero FDR?

Posted by Redman at 2009-11-15 09:57 PM | Reply

And churchill.

For her part, Phuc said the events that changed her young life are as vivid today as they were on June 8, 1972, when bombs rained down on her hometown of Trang Bang, north of Saigon.

"They saw that the temple will be next, and they told us to run," said Phuc, whose family had been hiding in the village temple grounds.

"I was in the middle of the group," remembered Phuc, "my brother, my sister, my cousin in front of me, my aunt, my uncles behind. And I stopped."

There was the sound of bombs from South Vietnamese aircraft falling, "and after I saw the fire everywhere around me," Phuc said. "I was so scared. And all my clothes just burned off by the fire. And I saw all my burns. And people screaming: 'Nong qua! Nong qua!' 'Too hot! Too hot!'"

Two of Phuc's cousins died from injuries sustained in the bombing, but Kim was helped by photographer Ut, who helped her get medical attention at a South Vietnamese hospital. She then received more than a year of treatment at the American-funded Barsky Hospital in Saigon.

Still, Phuc said the legacy of her own wounds linger.

"I still have pain," she said. "Because my nerves are really damaged. They don't work well. So pain in one area spreads everywhere I got burned."

Healthy eating, exercise and an upbeat attitude help her focus away from the pain when it does come, however. And Phuc said that even the pain has its reward.

"The pain I consider as my protection. It humbles me, and helps me to never take my life for granted," she said. "And to share my story."