Brendon Burchard
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Ended up recruiting in the South right during and right after Vietnam when no one wanted that.
So he'd be spit on, things thrown at him, just awful.
Yeah.
Wow.
My mom, she had grown up in Vietnam under the first war, what used to be called the Indochina War, which was a French-Vietnamese conflict, which was before the American conflict.
It was a French-Vietnamese conflict.
Her father was a French soldier with her mother, who's Vietnamese.
He got killed when she was, oh gosh, 8, 9, 10.
So she got shipped to France for the child of war program.
She speaks French?
Speaks French, yeah.
Grew up in convents, basically.
So she grows up, has a terrible time there, abused, treated really terribly, separated from her family in France, separated from her mother who was still in Saigon.
And so mom has terrible, she turns 18, 19.
She's like, I'm out of here.
Goes back to Vietnam, meets another American, marries him, comes to the US.
He's terrible to her.
They get divorced.
She ends up meeting my dad.
So my dad had to go to Vietnam, come back to the U.S.