My Origin Story From Vietnam | Refugee Experience 

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Congratulations in finding your family. By the way you must be at least 49 years old yet you look like a teenager.

The reason I subscribed to your channel! btw, I am an East African guy living in St Paul MN, USA. We might not agree on everything Vietnam but for me, I had been following everything Vietnam since I was a kid. The distance the Vietnamese could go to preserve their dignity, against all odds to persevere, the willingness of the Vietnamese people to lose everything so as not to be a slave and kneel down to foreigners had inspired to all colonized people in Africa and beyond. They showed the world that it's better to be a lion for one day than to be a fox for a million years. Just wanna throw that in. Thank you for your story.

What a story that it took nearly five decades to reunite with your family. Wishing you all the best.

Congratulations on finding your family. I'm still looking for mine. I was born in Vietnam and was adopted.

Amazing story for an amazing young man!

I’m so glad this came up in my RU-vid feed, so interesting, thank you!

And it’s a story worth hearing…. Thank you for sharing.

Amazing story, I need to see the vids u made before on it!

What an amazing story! I’m glad your family were able to find you. They would be very proud of you and what you’ve achieved. You put out great content - keep up the good work!

Wow what a life story❤

You have an interesting story. Both of my parents were boat people from Vietnam. I was born in America 🤭

Thanks for sharing your story, Chris… really happy for you and your family! That you are even here to relay it to us is amazing…I am sure you don’t take life for granted and appreciate even the little things?! I was born in Australia - and have a blessed life. One of the greatest and most tolerant Countries in the world, I would like to think. Regards Leon

Just come across you channel so so interested. Am sure be following your story.from your new subscriber from Australia.

Dang it, you are older than me, but you look way younger than me. I hope the final DNA test is a match. This is an amazing story. I will share it on FB and subscribe. Good luck!

I'm happy for you brother. My family come from refugees from Iraq that were kicked out for being Jewish. War is horrible, ethnic cleansings are horrible. I'm happy there a positive aspect to your story.

Congratulations on finding your family . It was like a needle in a haystack . You where lost and now you've been found .

you grew up well

There are a lot of poignant stories from the end of the war that would make a good story line. I just met a man from the other day who was a military officer in the South Vietnamese army. He said when Saigon fell the US was going to airlift him to the US but his wife or girlfriend at the time didn't want to go, so he stayed back with her. He then was sent to re-education camp for 10 years. They eventually got married and moved to the US when he applied for VISA. He told me he doesn't know which is worse, staying back and go to prison for 10 years or to leave VN with nothing, in a strange land without any friends or family, not knowing the language, starting from scratch. Everyone during that era suffered some kind of traumatic event that is very interesting to hear. I've heard of a lot of harrowing events after the war with the boat people. It would be good to record everything down either with video or blog.

No way he looks 49 years old😮😮..why don't you share your secrets to stay young❤

This is the craziest story...man....I thought maybe you dad was American and Mom was Vietnamese...I bet you could get Vietnamese dual citizenship or at the very least a long term visa to live there, buy land etc. Do you have a Vietnamese birth certificate or anything from when you were born on the base? I will buy your book, good luck with everything man, I love Pusan btw, lived in Korea many years, peace be with you man.

I'm confused, airplane crash, was another child lost? How did you survive crash?

You speak like a Native American. Where were you educated? Is Vietnam now your home?

Why were the American Army in Vietnam? Three million Vietnamese perished.

You look 30’s

Are you Really 50 years old? you look 21.

I hope I look like u when I get old ASIANS DONT RASIENS