America is better for having him and every other Vietnamese American I have ever been personally acquainted with.
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Cao says that it is important to have a Vietnamese-American in Congress to be a voice for the 1.5 million Vietnamese in the United States, and that his experience as an immigration attorney can bring a needed insight to the hotly debated issue of immigration.
After finding brief happiness as a postoperative man wed to a Vietnamese-American woman, Chi commits suicide.
In mid-2006 a well-connected Vietnamese-American invited Mr Trung to America, where he introduced him to the then president, George Bush.
He has toiled on many poverty-related issues and is a champion of the Vietnamese-American community that works in the shrimp industry on the gulf coast.
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She's a Vietnamese-American who celebrates Christmas and he's Jewish.
Ms Le's boss at Indochina Capital, Tung Kim Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American, reckons there is a bigger wave to come as older exiles return to spend their final years back in their homeland.
Pham, an insightful new voice in Vietnamese-American literature.
Hanoi freed American-Vietnamese democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan in January and U.S.-trained human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh in February.
The period that Americans refer to as the "Vietnam War" and the Vietnamese call the "American War" was the US military intervention from 1965 to 1973.
On the United Flavours of the World tour, I was chauffeured with a bus of about 25 food lovers, led by Maeve herself, to Sydney suburbs I had never heard of on a quest to find the best South American butchers and pastry shops, Portuguese delis, Vietnamese restaurants and desserts of Lebanese, American and English origin.
The writer-director Randall Wallace stages much of the combat at very close range, with masses of North Vietnamese infantry hurling themselves against American riflemen.
The shelves in H-Mart contain Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese foods, as well as American breakfast cereal.
Moreover, many of those exports would stem from fresh direct investment by American firms and returning Vietnamese expatriates.
They created two lives for themselves: the American one and the Vietnamese one Oriental as we all said back then.
The war that left about 60, 000 American troops and up to 5m Vietnamese dead still haunts a generation of politicians, from John McCain, who famously fought, to Bill Clinton and George Bush, who famously didn't.
For example, upon leaving Vietnam, Mr. Kerry made himself a leader of the effort to divide and demoralize the American people, allowing the North Vietnamese to win on our home front what they could not achieve on the battlefield.
He describes growing up aspiring to be American but later longing to seek out his Vietnamese identity.
Some 50 American soldiers were nearly surrounded by some 100 North Vietnamese fighters.
In fact, at that point American corporations and the U.S. and Vietnamese governments will have a common interest in not rocking the boat.
Yet he brings his own illumination to the role of Thomas Fowler, an aging English journalist who suddenly finds that his exquisite Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, is being courted by a handsome young American named Alden Pyle.
The bottom line is that the United States and Vietnamese governments need to come together to bring these orphans to their loving American families who have not faltered, over the course of more than three years, in their desire to be parents to these precious little lives.
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During the Vietnam war, American spies recruited members of Laos's Hmong ethnic minority to attack Vietnamese supply lines.
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Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22, 000 American lives - quite apart from the lives of the Laotians, Cambodians and Vietnamese caught up in the new offensives - before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968.
The more American foods I ate, the more my desires multiplied, outpacing any interest in Vietnamese food.
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