Left Behind in Vietnam | VOA Connect

I don't know how I feel about this. The family was separated and all, which I feel bad for, but the mom already had a husband and yet had a child with someone else, which I despise.

she said something that wasn’t translated: “I rather live in shame than abandoning my child.”

The real Victim is the daughter.

"i rather live in shame than abandoning my child." AND YOU DIDNT EVEN TRANSLATE THAT!!!!!!

The true MVP was the father that took in the girl even if it wasn't his.

The daughter didn’t ask for any of this. I feel bad for her, but I’m glad she got to know her dad and he loved her and acknowledged her completely.

Makes me mad knowing how many children were left behind. I'm disgusted with what my own cousin said when he was stationed in Korea. We were at a relative's funeral and we got to talking, catching up about our lives and about how many kids we each had, and he said he only had one with his wife and pointed her out because i wasn't familiar with her. But then laughed about the one he left behind when he left Korea, the look i gave him left him very uncomfortable and then I told him how sad it was to abandon a child, that child is our family. He didn't want to talk to me anymore, and haven't since that day. I've seen many videos of these children and how they shunned simply because of their skin color or eye color. They deserve to be recognized, and I would love to meet this child/relative even though his ass wipe father doesn't.

My Father had a little girl he left in Vietnam. It haunted him he left her there. 7 years after Dad's death, my sister found us.... Nguyen My

.. most of these fathers now have family of their own and NEVER want to be found. It’s called a hit and run.

Whatever her mother and father's relationship, the child shouldn't be blamed or judge by it. I'm so happy the daughter was able to find her father before it was too late. The daughter really looked like she needed closure.

food for thought: for every one of these stories with a happy ending, there’re probably thousands without~

When she's sitting next to her father's side-by-side she has his eyes and his smile! Poor girl really suffered!

Few minutes of pleasure is someones nightmare forever.

There's a lot they left out in the subtitles. At the part that says "my application was rejected many times" she also said "my life was full of suffering"

"I was just fooling around I didn't know I was going to get pregnant." Something tells me you weren't playing twister.

I had a cousin who was born roughly 20 years before I was born. He served 2 tours in Vietnam. Last year I found out he left behind a daughter who was able to get out of Vietnam in the early 1970s. She and I found each other because we both posted our DNA and it came back showing we were connected. I've emailed with her and spoken to her on the phone, and I can't wait to meet her in person - if we can get out of this crazy COVID thing.

I was all smilin and happy until I realized she already have a husband

So she was a married woman who had an affair with an American? My heart goes out to the daughter and jilted spouse, not the parents.

"They are called children of the dust"—as insignificant as a speck to be brushed aside. 😥😥

My mom is also a mixed kid in vietnam with an american soldier father and even after immigrating to the U.S., she still never got to meet her father to this day. It breaks my heart truly because she gave up on the idea long ago.