Most recent public comments by Jess Lin https://nowcomment.com/users/16791 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=398391 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=398391 War stories come from different directions. War described by the communist side of Vietnam would be different from war described by the anti-communist side of Vietnam, which would also be different from war described by the Americans who fought in it. Nguyen, who grew up among Vietnamese refugees, heard a story about a family who owned a store in Vietnam, in which the mother eventually left the war-stricken country with her sons and left her daughter to take over the store. The mother and father opened a store in California, and later finds out that their parents in their homeland have passed away and starts to cry. This story is different from the American movie that portrays an American soldier who "walks into the sunset with a young Vietnamese orphan in need of his paternal benevolence. American war stories are seen as heroic while Vietnamese war stories are more realistic. Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:40:03 -0800