Vietnam talk, interview with Author Steven DeBonis

Vietnam talk "Where Is My Amerasian Sibling ?"

Melissa Armstrong, lives in the state of Oklahoma, USA, raised by her father, Howard D Aliff, who served in Bien Hoa, Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict. He came back from the war as a different person and lived with post-traumatic stress disorder. He also kept a secret, an Amerasian son named "John" that he fathered during his time overseas. The Vietnamese mother, he met in Bien Hoa. After Howard died away in 2018, Melissa discovered old photographs of her father with a Vietnamese woman and their child along with a doctor or caretaker. Stunned Melissa realized the secret her father took to the grave, a half-brother who would be over 50 years old now. She also realized how the internet and an organization called Father Founded might be able to help solve the mystery and help her find her him. So, she began the search for the child left behind with just a few clues…her father’s full name: Howard D Aliff II who served in the United State Air Force as a Technical Sergeant, Sgt ( E-4 ), at Bien Hoa Air Base in 1970 and 1971. I hope you enjoy Melissa’s story. Remember to share, comment, like and if you have any information that might help with Melissa’s search, please contact Father Founded at the fatherfounded.org website.

Vietnam talk, interview with Vietnam Veteran Edmund " Ed " Correa

Edmund or just Ed, was born in the Bronx, New York City, NY and is of Puerto Rican heritage. Here's his own words... I was assigned to Tan Son Nhut Air Base in July 1971 and later that month I was introduced to a young lady nicknamed "Phin" by a coworker. A month had gone by and we had signed cohabitation papers which allowed us to go out together in Saigon. That is when I learned her real name was Tran Thi Bong. I also found out that she was a mother of 3 children Ha (born 1968), Phuong (born 1970), and Hong (born 1971). Their family surname was Chu. Phin was never married. Even so we stayed together. In February 1972 we found out that she was 6 weeks pregnant and was expecting her 4th child, my 1st. As luck would have it my extension request was denied and in July 1972 I left Vietnam. In October 1972 I received a letter from Phin saying that I had a son born on 22 September 1972 with a picture of him being held by his sister Ha. I acknowledged receipt of her letter and asked for one more picture. This was a test to make sure my mail was received by her before I would send funds to support them. Instead I never received a reply. Making me believe that she never received my letter. Phin gave our son the name Correa Mother TRAN THI BONG Place of birth Giha Dhin Saigon 22 September 1972 In 1984 National Geographic Magazine had a picture of an Amerasian boy. When I saw the picture he looked just like me when I was his age. In 2001 I returned to Vietnam in hopes of trying to find them. On a hunch I was able to locate my son's brother, Hong Chu, through the help of the Korean Vocational Training Center which also had his mother's information. It was a hunch that paid off. Hong and I met but when we arranged to meet again on the following day he did not return. Instead he called my hotel, told them he was sorry and that he was afraid possibly because he was in the process of registering with the U.S. Amerasian Relocation Program. All contact was lost afterwards. Edmund Correa's DNA is in Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA, 23andMe, and MyHeritage in the hopes of finding his son.

Vietnam talk, interview with Vietnam Veteran John Caputo

John Caputo, is a dear old friend of Father Founded. He first contacted Father Founded in 2016, asking us for help in locating his lost ones. Like other veterans he did what he could to locate them but all in vain. Here´s John story : John served in Vietnam from 1969 to October 1970, he spend 17 months there. Most of the time in Long Binh, during his time in Vietnam he often went to Saigon, were he had briefings to attend. In Saigon he spent his evening on the famous street Tu Do, where bars and restaurants for the GIs could be found. In one bar he met "Mia", she was a Vietnamese women who was working in the bar, she probably used to work in the famous "Rose bar" before. They got into a relationship, and she got pregnant. The Amerasian daughter may have ended up in an orphanage, ran by Canadians, and might have ended up in Canada. John lost contact with Mia, after he went back to USA in 1970, he wrote her several times and to the orphanages too, but there was no response. He believes Mia might have been killed in the end of the war, but he never gave up on the search for his daughter. John is hopeful that one day his DNA test will show a match to his daughter or her children.

Vietnam talk, interview with Author Steven DeBonis

Steven DeBonis, author of the book " Children of the enemy: Oral Histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and their mothers " Steven worked in refugee camps in Thailand, and later in the Philipine Refugee Processing Center, Bataan, Philipines and he also spend a year in Vietnam too. During hes time in the Philipines, he met many amerasians and their mothers , and he decided to make a book about those people he met and interviewed. Steven had many wonderfull stories to share, and I am glad he did it with me. Anyone can buy hes book online and on amazon.com

Vietnam talk. Interview with Vietnam veteran Arthur " Art" E Sanchez

Arthur served in Vietnam during the war. He went to places like Bien Hoa, Saigon ( Tan Son Nhut Ab ) and Hue, during hes time in Vietnam, he met Kim. They felt in love, and he later found she were pregnent and he lost contact with her , after end duty. Like many other servicement, Arthur cam back to USA as a changed man, dealing with Vietnam and what happend to him overthere. Art and painting became whats save him. It gave him peace and a living too. It also made him able to help other dealing with their past too. Arthur went back to Vietnam in 2000, assisting in rebuilding projects created by Vietnam veterans. This interview had been the longest I made sofar, but it gave me so much when it comes to understand what happend to a person that went to war and came back after Should anyone knows the where about of Arthurs love ones , please contact me