The Children Left Behind

Part I of Essay
During the ten year period of the United States involvement in Vietnam, some of the United States soldiers and civilians stationed in Vietnam fathered thousands of children with Vietnamese women. These children (Amerasians) that were left behind had distinct American physic ....

Part II of Essay
.... parents of these children do nothing about this torment because they assume his mother was a prostitute, so they feel he deserves it” (DeBonis 60-61). Joe did attend school up until the fourth grade, at which time his family moved from Saigon to Long Thanh, he was denied the right to attend. He was told, “No, you can’t go, you don’t have any paper work plus you’re ‘My Lai’ you’re half-American” (DeBonis 61). Before Joe and his mother immigrated to the United States he was made to feel like an outcast, Joe says “ ‘I considered Vietnam ....