As a teacher in NYC i had many English Second Language classes. Kids from everywhere. I had a early assignment. Take an index card and on the plain back draw the flag of the nation you came from. On a second card tell the reason your parents came to America. In 1992 I had a 12 year old Vietnamese girl. She handed in her assignment. One card showed the gold background andvtthree red stripes of tge Republic of VietNam. On the other card was her family’s reason for coming. One word printed in caps
FREEDOM.
This girl was born 5 years after the Fall of Saigon. She had no.memory of her country but she knew what it was and she knew why she would never see it and tgat America meant Freedom. Abrams was correct. The South Vietnamese deserved it..
Ty for your thoughts. I’m glad i read them.
Very cool.