Thomas Dooley Biography

Thomas Dooley doesn 't seem to be a man that many people know about anymore, very few know of his accomplishments and the major difference he made in people 's lives during the Vietnam War and after the war too. At the beginning of my research I was in the mindset of oh great another paper let 's get it done. Now I actually interested and I wish a few more people knew about this man. During the Vietnam War his name was more commonly heard, he was awarded for all his hard work by the vietnamese government and the red cross. Hes also the man who had a calling and followed it. He did what he liked and it was a noble cause, putting others before himself. It was also hard to find information on Dr. Dooley, there are sources on him however when …show more content…
They Geneva Agreement ended up dividing Vietnam into two different political zones. The north Being communist and the south not being communist. In 1954 Dooley was transferred so help in the aid of the crossing of 600,000 Vietnamese refugees. He was later recognized for this and awarded by the vietnamese government. This mission was called the Passage to Freedom. On the ship he served as a doctor and he also was able to translate a little bit of French. Later he became in charge of the building and maintaining refugee camps in Haiphong. He was in charge of this till 1955 when the city was overrun.(Dooley, Thomas A. The Night) Thomas Dooley would write about his experiences so that people in America could see what it was like in the war torn area. He became a symbol of the American cooperation in the war. Because at times he was close to battle he was also able to record where troops were moving too and would report that back to give the military the upper hand during a battle. (Dooley, Thomas A. The Night). The nobel thing is even when doing this, he never took a penny, he saw it as a way to help keep them off his back, if he aided them then they would let him do the things he needed to do without harassment. (Rawson, Rosemary) In 1956 Thomas wrote the book Deliver Us from Evil which became a bestseller during the war and was a common reference for the events that were taking place there. …show more content…
This is something that Jesus also did, when with his disciples he told them to drop everything they had and to begin to distribute their wealth. Their wealth went to those in a war torn country and with their funding helped preserve thousands of people 's lives. Also Thomas followed the quote “if you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn.” When he established his hospitals he wouldn 't have been able to build others if he had stayed and was the only doctor. He would help teach other people his profession or his way, which in a way could be compared to jesus teaching a way to live your life. By teaching others he would then be able to move on and build another hospital that he could help at.
Comparing myself to Thomas Dooley is kind of hard and almost unfair. Given that at the time he accomplished all the major things in his life he was an adult. I can 't just pick up and leave to go to some other country. Also I can 't enlist in the navy or any medical part of the army. And even if I could I really don 't think I would want to by signing into the military there is a chance you may not end up where you wanted to go because once your name is on that contract they pretty much own you. He’s also just such a great guy all around and it almost feels wrong to compare myself to someone that