Personal Narrative: De Tai / It is Easy to Misunderstand

Identifier
2011_006 (local)

Repository
Northern Virginia Folklife Archive at George Mason University

Date
1970s (Predominant dates)

Summary
The folklorist interviews his father, a chaplain in the 1st Corps of the South Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War, and collects a personal narrative from his father about a newly married couple who, fleeing trouble, come to the father’s house in Da Na.

Keywords: 1970s, Vietnam War, Personal Narrative, family, newlyweds, chaplain, friend, Vietnamese, 1st Corp of South Vietnamese army, marital trouble, friendship, misunderstanding, bed, soldier, guns, rifles, jokes, Dai Nang City

Creator and/or Contributor
Linh-Thong Nguyen (interviewer), Thai Nguyen (interviewee)

Language
Vietnamese (Languages)

Materials Designation
manuscripts

Part Of
2011

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