The author has exclusively shared an excerpt of his introduction with EW, which you might read below.
I was born a citizen and a human being.
Looking back, I remember nothing of the experience that turned me into a refugee.
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It begins with my mother making a life-and-death decision on her own.
My father was in Saigon, and the lines of communication were cut.
My brother remembers dead paratroopers hanging from the trees on our route, although I do not.
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No one, except my sister.
But when I mentioned it to my older brother many years later, he said the shooting never happened.
But sometimes we deliberately ignore and forget others.
No wonder we do not wish to see them.
