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An oral history with Mr. Ryan Tuan Pham, born in 1965 in Saigon, Vietnam. He was a student during the time of the war and lived in Long An, Vietnam. He has five brothers and five sisters, and he is the eighth child. He comes from a Catholic family. Ryan talks about his childhood memories and memories of 1975. He left Vietnam at the age of 16 with some of his relatives by boat. He was sponsored to the U.S. and continued his education in high school and college. He also took English as a Second Language classes. In his early years in the U.S., he worked in a clothing factory in order to provide for himself. Now he works as a customs broker. Ryan takes part in a Vietnamese traditional culture music club. He has two daughters with his ex-wife. ...