Trong's Family History
The side that Trong's father fought on in World War Two.
What are the Allied Forces?
The year in which the Nguyen's were forced to flee to Saigon after the North Vietnamese broke the Paris Peace Agreement.
What is 1975?
The number of children in the Nguyen family.
What is five?
The one major issue that plagued the Argyle Street area and that Trong helped to organize the community to combat.
What is crime/robbery?
The number of groups the Nguyen extended family was split into for relocation.
What is three?
The fate of Trong's mother when she went to find Trong's father.
What is disappeared in Laos?
This group of people is who Trong helped when he first started doing social work as a sixteen year old.
What are war orphans?
What most kids called Thanh Tram in school because of her inability to express her feelings about Vietnam.
What is "stuck up?"
The name of the Chinese building association that owned most of the property in Argyle Street's business strip where the Vietnamese community rented and built their businesses.
What is Hip Sing?
How Trong described the experience of Americans coming to visit their refugee camp in Arkansas.
What is "like a slave market?"
The year in which Trong's birth mother was found with a new family.
What is 1955?
The type of battalion that Trong served in against the communist forces.
What is the Ranger battalion?
The group that Tran spent time with in high school because there were only two Vietnamese kids who went there.
What is none exclusively/all of them?
The name of the restaurant Trong highlights among others in the Vietnamese community as a reason Uptown started to gain notoriety.
What is the Mekong Restaurant?
Where Trong worked in Lancaster, Ohio and was yelled at by a co-worker, leading him to quit.
What is a donut bakery?
The age at which Trong's father discovered he existed.
What is nine years old?
The reason why Trong was medically discharged from the army and took up a job with USAID.
What is an enlarged heart?
What Tran says some people don't care about any more in Uptown.
What is the old culture?
The nickname given to Argyle Street by Chicago reporters after the Vietnamese refugees like the Nguyens revitalized the area.
What is Little Saigon?
The place where Trong worked as a janitor and faced discrimination by a superintendent.
What is Water Tower Place?
The name of the leader in South Vietnam who Trong's father served and protected.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
The name of the boat that took the Nguyen family to the United States after they had to evacuate Saigon.
What is the Pioneer Contender?
Thanh Tram's response to people calling her fully American after she got her citizenship.
What is Still Vietnamese...never all American?
One role the Vietnamese Community Center, which Trong helped to organize, played in regard to the mindset of many Vietnamese in Chicago.
What is changing negative attitudes about work and social adjustment.
Where Trong started working that led the Nguyen family to move to Uptown.
What is Travelers and Immigrant Aid?