he remembers being ridiculed as “an American boy.”16 There was no one else like him. He had more experience with Americans than most ARVN officers, who spent just one month training in the United States. An had lived there freely for two years. “I was considered ‘too American’ and ‘bourgeois’ by the new regime, and they expected me to speak like a Marxist after a few months of lectures and confession sessions,” An told me. An did have lots of time to think. “You know, this was my first time living under Communism. I had so much to learn and tried to adjust everything, my way of thinking,
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