Anh Nguyen Austen

And so there was no way for her to go.

So she heard news of that.

But it was kind of constant news about people leaving.

And even, you know, my father's family was extremely sad for her.

And I think they became much kinder to her in that sense.

But it was one of the saddest days.

There were, you know, people that remember the exact...

hour of the radio announcement and South Vietnamese soldiers committing suicide.

It's just a very, like, even when my mother talks about it, she really tears up at that very particular hour.

They remember that hour.

Yes, I guess we'd grown up with some raids on the house.

They were, you know, checking for weapons or whatever it is that they're saying they're doing.

But mostly it's just confiscating property.

Well, I think what happened is people's fortunes had changed.

So they kind of left us just a very small part of the shop front.

And so they had given the other parts away to other families that were probably working for the regime.

No, my father did not have that kind of a fate because he was protected by his family.

Yeah, life in that kind of a town was, you know, they had a lot of influence, but it wasn't the way we see an us and them.

You know, your neighbors, if they were working for Viet Cong, it wasn't clearly adversarial.

We just kind of accepted that people...