Personal Narrative: My Life In Vietnam

My name Lin Dao and I am writing to you from Hanoi which is located in Vietnam. You must be wondering why I took the liberty of finding out where you worked and decided to contact you specifically. The two part being is that I have recently watched a documentary called “Regret to Inform”. I am sure that, as a history teacher, you have seen this heart wrenching documentary about a woman whose husband died during the American War, or the Vietnam War as you call it, and how she contacted other women and also told their stories. The second reason is that one day when I was so kindly helping a tourist find their way around, I heard that they did not know much about the Vietnam War because it was not that focused upon during history classes. Your name came up in the discussion and I decided that it was time to reach out to you because I believe that my story, and other Vietnamese women’s stories, can help your students and others truly understand what the war was to us. My story …show more content…
We always called Bui the little wanderer because his mind would drift and he said his feet would follow. Never did we expect to this to happen because of it. He had managed to wander into one of the traps for the Republican soldiers that were set by the Viet Cong and he stepped on a land mine. This was not too far from our home, so I could hear the explosion but I thought nothing of it until we were informed later that day. Up to that day my family and I were avid supporters of the Viet Cong and we were grateful that they were fighting for our independence and our culture, but after Bui had died I found it hard to support anyone. My parents continued to help the members of the Viet Cong in anyway they could and when I was fifteen I even found myself stealing the Republican soldiers medical supplies and sometimes weapons for the Viet Cong