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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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....is 56). Joe was like a “man without a country”; he was made to feel he did not belong while he lived in Vietnam.
Many of the Amerasian children in hopes of escaping persecution and finding their identities had dreams of coming to the United States, “ ‘ I will leave my homeland/ as I have lived in it, with nothing/ but a ticket to my fathers land/’” (qtd. in DeBonis). This poem mirrors the way many of the Amerasian children interviewed in DeBonis’s book felt. Outcasts in the Vietnamese society, .... |
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