Pics of us in Vietnam:



That's my brother with the hat turned sideways. I am the one being held by the woman.




Again, I am the one being held by the woman. My brother is wearing the hat with the visor flipped up. And that's our mother (who is still alive and doing well in Vietnam) the first adult in the back row.


That's my brother standing right behind me as the middle kid in the back row of three. I am the middle kid in the front row of three.

My Brother:

He was born Nghia Van Thach in 1967 in Saigon to Thi Phuc Thach, his birth mother (my mother). We both have the same American father, who served in the Air Force and whose exact name I'm not sure of. This is an excerpt of my brother's birth certificate.




My brother may be in America (or Canada) because in 1975, in all of the tumult of the American pullout, Operation Babylift was conducted, where babies from orphanages were taken to America (and Canada) and put up for adoption. My mother, who worked for the South Vietnamese government and cooperated with America, put my brother in such an orphanage for protection. She intended this to be temporary; but before she could retrieve her child, he was already taken to America or Canada.

Me:

I was born in Saigon in 1969. Here is what I look like today:





And here are some more pics from the last 2 years.

Who is Jonathan Rowe?

The admistrator of this site and the person helping me write these posts. Check out his main blog.

Introduction:

Hello,

My name is Hieu Van Thach and the purpose of this blog is to find my long lost brother. I am an immigrant from Vietnam, who came to America under an act that gave amnesty to Vietnamese children fathered by Americans during the war.

Because I came to American when I was 20 and because in Vietnam I was persecuted because of my ethnicity in the public schools (and elsewhere), I had to stop schooling when nine years old and my English skills are thus quite limited. As such, a friend is helping me construct this site.