Ti Dinh

In my youth, I would ask my family about the inconsistencies in our south Vietnamese refugee history. Their non-answers, tense and curt, would keep us all tight-lipped about it for years to come. U.S. textbooks and media worked double time to fill that vacuum. Exhausted by the deception, I closed that door years ago.

Now, after learning that North Vietnam and Palestine have been in solidarity since 1968, that door has swung back open. Oriented by all that I’ve learned from Palestinians, I finally feel steady enough to once again seek out: what else can be true about my family’s animosity of the north and their reasons for migrating to the U.S. of all places?

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