Episode 5: Quy Nhon 2 - A Soldier's Wartime Message

Returning to Quy Nhon, there was one person whose stories I am determined to record: my grandpa, Mr. Bien. At 92 years old, he had lived through over 39 years of war against the French, Americans, as well as other minor auxiliary forces. Throughout his time, he has served all ranks in the military from soldier to commander. This episode will be dedicated to his memories and experience during the war, the lessons he learned from being a soldier, and the message he has to today’s youth. He said, “to truly appreciate the conditions today, one has to experience what the conditions then were really like.” His stories can give us a metric to measure how far the Vietnamese Narrative had evolved from wartime as well as shine a light onto the hardships that soldiers underwent to preserve the freedom and independence of the country.