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RAIN ON THE RED FLAG - BOOK TRAILER VIDEO

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- January 18, 2023

RAIN ON THE RED FLAG - BOOK TRAILER

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Rain On The Red Flag - A Memoir by Frank Thanh Nguyen

- October 25, 2022

Buy or Gift Online. Click here to buy from Amazon Click here to buy from Google Play Click here to buy from Apple's iTunes Click here to buy from Barnes & Noble Click here to buy from ReaderHouse Semi Finalist, 2023 Memoir Category Nguyen's book is a thoroughly engaging story that draws readers in with tragedy, perseverance, and, ultimately, a type of reunification. The framing--starting the story with a heartbreaking plot point--sets the stage for an emotional and harrowing story that keeps readers riveted throughout. Public Reviews " Rain on the Red Flag is an immensely moving and absorbing memoir of one man’s journey to freedom and the high price both he and his family paid to get there. Highly engaging and thoroughly readable, it is superbly well-written and expertly paced. You can almost smell the smoke. Feel the wind and the rain. Hear the blare of Communist propaganda. Taste the salt air on the open sea. Don’t miss this one. It is incisive and poig

APRIL 30th, 1975 - THE FALL OF SAIGON (EXCERPT FROM RAIN ON THE RED FLAG MEMOIR)

- April 30, 2023

(see picture notes below) We camped out in that second-floor stairwell all night, making little nests for ourselves. The youngest children curled into their mothers, occasionally drinking water and eating dry instant noodles. I closed my eyes, and their voices weaved in and out of my dreams. I woke up, choking on stuffy air. The guard was no longer there. A small window cast eerie smoked silver light on some of the children’s faces. Uncle Hieu stood near the cracked ventilation shaft, watching the airport. The pop-pop-popping sound of the shelling continued low staccato hum. “Come see,” my uncle whispered, waving toward me. I stood up, dizzy and dehydrated. My chest ached from the way I’d been curled all night. When I reached the shaft, I stood up on the balls of my feet on the stairs and squinted to look through the arm-sized crack in the shaft. I gasped. The sky was a greenish gray color that didn’t seem like day or night. Long columns of smoke billowed everywhere. “The American Mari

Nhạc Lam Phương và Kỷ Niệm

- December 23, 2020

Lam Phương không phải là thần tượng âm nhạc của tôi. Thế nhưng những bản nhạc tôi yêu thích của ông đều gắn liền với những kỷ niệm vụn vặt, khó quên. Nắng ấm bình minh thường biểu tượng cho một sự hy vọng, một niềm tin mới, một bắt đầu. Giọt sương mai là một cái đẹp mong manh, tinh khiết, hư ảo. Thế nhưng khi Lam Phương đem vào giòng nhạc buồn, trữ tình, ta mới thấy cái thật của Lam Phương. Bán nhạc bắt đầu từ tông điệu cao, chậm, buồn và lãng mạng: Nắng xuyên qua lá, Rồi như một lời thở than nhẹ nhàng, dòng nhạc rơi xuống với tuyệt vọng và đau thương: Hạt sương lìa cành Để rồi thay vì cái đẹp của ánh bình minh và giọt sương mai, chỉ là nỗi buồn thân phận, một sự chấp nhận: Đời mong manh quá, kể chi chuyện mình Một chấp nhận cho cuộc tình dang dở, đau buồn mà không mấy ai trong chúng ta đều không trải qua trong đời: Nắng buồn cuộc tình, bỗng tắt bình minh. Một Mình là một tác phẩm sau này của Lam Phương sau bao cuộc tình tan vỡ, như một lời tâm sự mà tôi chợt nghe được rất tình cờ, rất

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Frank Thanh Nguyen: Frank Thanh Nguyen was born in Dalat, South Vietnam, from a large family where his father and uncles all served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He spent most of his childhood and high school years in Saigon while the Vietnam War raged through the country. After the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists in 1975, he spent the next two years trying to escape the new brutal regime. He got arrested and sent to several labor camps. In 1981, he was released and successfully escaped the country and reunited with his family in the US. He went to college and earned his master’s degree in computer science. He has since worked for many high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley, specializing in software development and leadership for more than thirty-five years. He is married and has two sons. Frank Nguyen spent much of his spare time reading, writing, and playing for the Mystery Box band, a local amateur rock band.

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