Personal Narrative: The Vietnamese Culture

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I left in the middle of the night. I had to go. There was so much that I need to to see in this beautiful country. I met someone named Cara, she a Native Vietnamese girl. I met her when I went out with the guys. I’m staying with her and her amazing family. I need to learn more about their counture. Therefore she’s teaching me the language and everything about the Vietnamese culture. She lives with her family in a small village in South Vietnam. Her father was killed in an attack by North Vietnamese soldiers.
Cara’s family is allowing me to stay there as long as I want. I'm going to really miss mark and I don't think that I will ever stop missing him. But, this is what I need to do. I hope that this doesn't make him too angry and throws him off track with the war. I have to help out Cara, because her family have to money and I knew her father from the South Vietnamese soldiers telling all his legendary stories. I just want to make sure that their safe and protected even with the war going on.
Cara still tells all of her father’s stories to the local children in the village who lost their parents to lift their spirits up. She’s such a good role model to this young girls and boys even their parents. She told me about how her dad would hunt for food and water to feed the whole
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As much as the U.S is trying to stop the war for them, they are still losing their loved ones. I’ve alos come to learn that this was is not a joke it’s real and dangerous. I hope that someday this war can end and there poor citizens can find hope and faith again. I really wanted to go back and visit Mark but it’s way too risky to go back there the war is only getting worse and I need to be here for these people. I don’t want him to know where I am because I know that he’s going to get himself killed or in big trouble. This is my decision and I’m staying here in South Vietnam with Cara and the others in the

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