The Vietnam War yielded no winner. The biggest losers and yet the ultimate winners are the forgotten generation of Vietnamese expatriates Việt Kiều.

My parents and their generation risked their lives everyday defending South Vietnam against the communists, and then they gave up everything that they ever owned, their friends and families and the country they love, to deliver their children to the land of freedom. Once in the US, they humbled themselves performing whatever jobs they can find and against all odds kept their children in schools and gave them the opportunities to compete in this land.

While the Communist Vietnamese had rewritten history to their favor, the courageous and heroic accounts of the people of the South were blatantly disregarded. And while Americans were quick to put the memory of the Vietnam War behind them, the whole generation of South Vietnamese like my parents was completely forgotten. Yet it was because of them that my generation, their children grown up in America, would have the opportunities to better our lives.

The forgotten generation has so much to tell, and this book chronicles some small parts of their struggles, sacrifices and eventual victories.