Surviving Vietnam
By Rachel Mann
When the communists came for her husband, Loan Bui trusted he would return. It was 10 years before he came back home. "I only saw him twice after they took him," Bui said. Northern Vietnam didn't have the resources to quell the south, so they used deceit to capture highly ranked military officials. "They were taking everyone, lieutenant and above. They weren't strong enough to control us," Bui said. During those years she was subjected to constant harassment, unjustified and unending. "I would dress poor. I would wear no makeup, take off all my jewelry, hide myself so that they wouldn't look at me. They would take everything, everything valuable," Bui said. She escaped with her two children in 1992. "When I finally got on the plane, I felt free. I knew I was free."
By Rachel Mann
When the communists came for her husband, Loan Bui trusted he would return. It was 10 years before he came back home. "I only saw him twice after they took him," Bui said. Northern Vietnam didn't have the resources to quell the south, so they used deceit to capture highly ranked military officials. "They were taking everyone, lieutenant and above. They weren't strong enough to control us," Bui said. During those years she was subjected to constant harassment, unjustified and unending. "I would dress poor. I would wear no makeup, take off all my jewelry, hide myself so that they wouldn't look at me. They would take everything, everything valuable," Bui said. She escaped with her two children in 1992. "When I finally got on the plane, I felt free. I knew I was free."
