Administrator’s note:

In the long history of Vietnam, the momentous event of April 1975 was indisputably unprecedented.  Throughout its four thousand year history, Vietnamese never fled their mother land in such huge number.  The inherently stoic Vietnamese would persevere against most hardships and/or natural disasters only to remain around their birth place with their family.  But the fear of communism in April 1975 had forced hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese to abandon their homeland, their relatives and their lifetime savings to avoid the barbarous, tyrannical regime coming from the North.

Thirty years have passed and the majority of adult Vietnamese who came to America in 1975 are now senior citizens.  Their children, some came here when they were very young, some were born in America, many have become productive American citizens. This new generation of young Vietnamese has been contributing enormously to our society in so many different fields including shedding blood on the battlefields thousand of miles away to defend what they treasure most: Freedom.

If these young Vietnamese Americans were left behind in Vietnam thirty years ago, they would have faced vengeance, would have been deprived of education.  Of course, they could not have become what they are now in this free society.  Please click the links below to see how these young Vietnamese Americans have contributed to their new country, the United States of America.

Viet Dinh: Georgetown Law Professor. Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General and Chief Architect of the USA Patriot Act.

http://www.duncanentertainment.com/interview_vietdinh.php  

http://www.nndb.com/people/273/000044141/

Loan Duy Le: First woman and one of the youngest individuals in TI’s 75-year history to be nominated and elected to the rank of TI Senior Fellow in 2002.  Inducted to Hall of Fame at WITI.

http://www.witi.com/wire/witiwomen/dloanle/index.shtml

http://asianamericanforum.org/2003speakers.htm

Jane Luu: Jane co-discovered the first known Kuiper belt object, (15760) 1992 QB₁, with David C. Jewitt. She was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1991. The asteroid 5430 Luu is named in her honor.

http://www.answers.com/topic/jane-luu

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/mayjun/classnotes/featurealum2.html

Eugene Trinh: 1988 - 1992 Project Scientist, Space Shuttle Payload Specialist Astronaut. Director, Microgravity Research Division NASA Headquarters.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/trinh.html

http://www.eng.yale.edu/news/Dist_Lecturer/trinh.htm