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KEEPING UP WITH DAD
Did you keep in touch with your dad post war?
So when we’re little, we had to write letters back then. As a kid, it’s kind of tough but yeah. We need to stay in touch with him and things like that. And she would send money back. Again, she’s really resourceful, so even though she has like a low-paying job, she was able to find enough money even to support us here and to send back money to him. The way it works is basically there’s two parties. There’s somebody over there and somebody over here. You pay the guy here and the guy over there gives my dad money.
I guess in ‘94…again, I haven’t seen him since ‘75. So he’s really…I guess, in the neighborhood, he’s known as the really wise guy. Not like the “wise guy” wise guy, but wise old man kind of thing. A lot of people come to him for advice and he’s actually into astro…that fortune telling stuff, but it’s looking at the stars instead of…yeah, starlogy. Apparently, he’s pretty good at it. He’s seen pretty accurately for a lot of people. So I got to talk to him. Again, it was strange since I haven’t seen him for who knows how long. So, yeah, by the time I got there, he was already diagnosed with liver cancer and so it was hard for him already. His health had deteriorated, he couldn’t talk very long, he couldn’t go anywhere, he was kind of bed-ridden. It was tough. Immediately after I left…a few days after I left, he passed away.
I guess it wasn’t hard because again, since I didn’t really know him, I didn’t really grow up with him, I guess the attachment and the bond wasn’t there. It wasn’t like somebody close. I really didn’t know him.
Object Description
| Profile of | Long Pham |
| Title | The Positive Side of the War |
| Profile bio | Long Pham lived in Saigon, Vietnam until he was 9 years old. On April 29, 1975, he and his family fled the country on a boat to a refugee camp in the Philippines. However, his dad didn't leave with Long's family because he had another family he had to take care of in Vietnam. Long enjoyed his time during the stay in the Philippines and he maintains a relatively happy mood throughout the trip. From there, he transferred to Wake Island for 2 weeks before a group brought them to Camp Pendleton near San Diego. Afterwards, he moved to Downey and started to assimilate into the American community. Since leaving Vietnam, Long went back twice, once in 1994, once in 2015. He seems to feel like a tourist back in his home country and he thinks the communist vibe is still very strong in the country. Today, Long is very thankful for the US because of all the help his family got when they left Vietnam. He is happily living in America and he has a very positive outlook in his past experiences. |
| Profiler bio | Kieran Reynolds, Jason Lui, and Beverly Pham are three students at the University of Southern California studying the American War in Vietnam. Kieran Reynolds is a senior from Shanghai, China majoring in Media Arts and Practice. Jason Lui is a sophomore from Hong Kong, China majoring in Business Administration. Beverly Pham is a sophomore from Westminster, CA majoring in Broadcast and Digital Journalism. |
| Subject |
Vietnam refugee immigrant communist fall of Saigon assimilation |
| Profiled by | Reynolds, Kieran; Lui, Jason; Pham, Beverly |
| Profile date | 2016-03-23 |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Saigon; Ho Chi Minh City; Hanoi; Hội An; Hoi An |
| Geographic subject (country) | Vietnam; Philippines; USA |
| Coverage date | 1975 |
| Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/long-pham/ |
| Type |
images video |
| Format | 1 image; 4 video files (00:21:14); 4 transcripts |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
| Filename | phamlong |
Description
| Profile of | Long Pham |
| Title | Keeping Up with Dad |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | phamlong-vid3_tr3.pdf |
| Full text | KEEPING UP WITH DAD Did you keep in touch with your dad post war? So when we’re little, we had to write letters back then. As a kid, it’s kind of tough but yeah. We need to stay in touch with him and things like that. And she would send money back. Again, she’s really resourceful, so even though she has like a low-paying job, she was able to find enough money even to support us here and to send back money to him. The way it works is basically there’s two parties. There’s somebody over there and somebody over here. You pay the guy here and the guy over there gives my dad money. I guess in ‘94…again, I haven’t seen him since ‘75. So he’s really…I guess, in the neighborhood, he’s known as the really wise guy. Not like the “wise guy” wise guy, but wise old man kind of thing. A lot of people come to him for advice and he’s actually into astro…that fortune telling stuff, but it’s looking at the stars instead of…yeah, starlogy. Apparently, he’s pretty good at it. He’s seen pretty accurately for a lot of people. So I got to talk to him. Again, it was strange since I haven’t seen him for who knows how long. So, yeah, by the time I got there, he was already diagnosed with liver cancer and so it was hard for him already. His health had deteriorated, he couldn’t talk very long, he couldn’t go anywhere, he was kind of bed-ridden. It was tough. Immediately after I left…a few days after I left, he passed away. I guess it wasn’t hard because again, since I didn’t really know him, I didn’t really grow up with him, I guess the attachment and the bond wasn’t there. It wasn’t like somebody close. I really didn’t know him. |
| Archival file | Volume3/phamlong-vid3_tr3.pdf |
