Soldier On: My Father, His General, and the Long Road from Vietnam
By Tran B. Quan and Lewis Sorley
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Soldier On is written by Le Quan’s daughter, who artfully crafts the road trip as a frame through which the stories of both men come to life. Le Quan and Tran Ba Di provide two different views of life in the South Vietnamese army, and they embody two different realities of the aftermath of defeat. Le Quan was able to smuggle his family out of Saigon among the so-called boat people, eventually receiving asylum in America and resettling in Texas. General Tran Ba Di, on the other hand, experienced political consequences: he spent seventeen years in a re-education camp before he was released to family in Florida.
A proud daughter’s perspective brings this intergenerational and intercontinental story to life, as Tran herself plumbs her remembrances to expand the legacy of the many Vietnamese who weathered conflict to forge new futures in America.
Tran B. Quan
Tran B. Quan is a family physician. She is currently the medical director at a state center for individuals with intellectual and developmental disability. Before that, she served as an active duty military physician in the U.S. Army. She is honored and blessed to have cared for two populations that will always remain special and inspiring to her. She lives in Rosenberg, Texas.
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