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Immigrant Stories is a research and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. Immigrant Stories helps immigrants, refugees, and their family members create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
\n\nThis project defines \"immigrant\" broadly. Our collection contains digital stories from people living outside their country of birth as well as stories created by their children and grandchildren. Immigrant Stories also welcomes stories from international students, international adoptees, and people who do not feel that their stories fit a particular, or just one, category. All stories are important, and we invite you to make a video and share yours with us.
", "title": "Hung Ngo", "title_s": "Hung Ngo", "title_t": "Hung Ngo", "title_search": "Hung Ngo", "title_sort": "hungngo", "description": "Hung No was born in Saigon, Vietnam and he served as an officer in the South Vietnamese navy. After the South Vietnamese government surrendered to North Vietnamese forces in 1975, he fled the country to avoid going to a labor camp. He escaped with other officers in a boat and were rescued by the U.S. navy in the South China Sea. He lived in a refugee camp, where he met his wife, before resettling in Minnesota.", "date_created": [ "2015" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2015" ], "date_created_sort": "2015", "creator": [ "Ngo, Hung" ], "creator_ss": [ "Ngo, Hung" ], "creator_sort": "ngohung", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:05:12", "subject": [ "Origin Vietnam", "Ethnicity Vietnamese" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Vietnam", "Ethnicity Vietnamese" ], "language": [ "English" ], "state": [ "Minnesota" ], "country": [ "United States" ], "continent": [ "North America" ], "parent_collection": "Immigrant Stories; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories", "parent_collection_name": "Immigrant Stories", "contributing_organization": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name_s": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contact_information": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0082" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0082" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "Hung\nNgo\nTranscription\nHi,\nmy\nname\nis\nHung\nNgo.\nI’m\na\nrefugee\nfrom\nVietnam\nWar.\nI\nwas\na\nSouth\nVietnamese\nofficer\nin\nthe\nSouth\nVietnamese\nnavy.\nIn\n1975,\nthe\nSouth\nVietnamese\ngovernment\nsurrendered\nto\nthe\nNorth.\nWhen\nI\nheard\nthat\nannouncement\nI\nhad\nno\nchoice,\nI\ndidn’t\nwant\ngo\nto\na\nlabor\ncamp.\nSo\nI\ndecided\nto\nescape\nwith\nfifty\nsoldiers\nin\na\nsmall\nboat\nand\nwent\nout\nto\nthe\nsea,\nthe\nSouth\nChina\nSea…\nWe\nmet\nwith\nthe\nU.S.\n7th\nfleet\nand\nthey\nrescued\nus….\nWe\nwaited\nfor\nsponsor\nand\nthen\nwe\nwent\nto\nthe\nIndia\nTown\nGap\nin\nMainland\nU.S.A.\nAt\nthe\nbeginning\nof\nthe\nrefugee\ncamp\nlife,\nit\nwas\nlonely,\nand\neverything\nwas\nstrange:\nthe\nlanguage\nculture,\nthe\nfood,\nthe\npeople.\nYou\nhad\nto\nlearn\nall\nover,\neverything.\nI\nmet\nmy\nwife\nat\nrefugee\ncamp\nwhen\nwe\nwent\nto\nEnglish\nclass\nand\nother\nrefugee\nactivities.\nI\nhad\nher\nat\nmy\nside,\nactually\nshe\nlived\nin\nthe\nsame\nrefugee\ncamp,\nso\nI\nhad\nsomebody\nto\ntalk,\nwhen\nyou\nneed\nto\ntalk\nto\nsomeone.\nThat\nmakes\nour\nfriendship\nbetter\nand\nunderstand\nmore.\nMy\nwife\ntell\nme\nabout\nher\nescape\nstory,\nshe\nwent\nout\nto\nthe\nocean\nwith\nher\nfamily,\nbut\nwhat\nhappened\nis\nthat\nthey\ngot\nlost\ntogether.\nOnly\nher\nbrother\nwas\nleft,\nshe\ndon’t\nknow\nwhat\nhappened\nto\nthe\nrest\nof\nthe\nfamily\n–\nthey\ndie\nin\nthe\nocean\nor\nwent\nback\nto\nVietnam.\nWhen\nshe\ntalked\nto\nme,\nshe\ntold\nme\nshe\nwas\nlonely\nand\nscared,\nand\nI\nunderstand.\nThen\nwe\nwere\nseparated\nbecause\nmy\nwife\nhad\na\nsponsor\nin\nChicago\nand\nI\nhad\na\nsponsor\nin\nMinnesota,\nbut\nwe\nstill\nkeep\nin\ncontact\nand\nwrite\nthe\nletters.\nI\nwent\nto\nChicago\nto\nmet\nher,\nand\nI\nasked\nto\ngo\nback\nto\nMinnesota\nto\nme.\nI\npropose\nto\nher\non\nApril\n1976.\nThe\nloss\nof\nSouth\nVietnam\nwas\nreally\npainful\nfor\nme;\nit’s\na\nreally\nbad\nmemory.\nBut\nI\nfeel\nmuch\nbetter\nwhen\nout\nof\na\nbad\nsituation\nyou\nstill\nhave\ngood\nthings,\nthe\nchance\nto\nmet\nmy\nwife\nand\nto\nstart\na\nnew\nlife\nfrom\nthe\nloss\nour\ncountry\nand\nwe’ve\nbeen\ntogether\nuntil\nnow.", "kaltura_video": "1_l0fznp2o", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "109.pdf", "attachment_format": "pdf", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "_version_": 1710348538330742786, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "256", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_l0fznp2o", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/011f06ba605901e4903bcdfb97788f11dea5b2f2.png", "children": [ ] }