My room
- This is a preview of the essay.
To view the full text you must login!
UNFORGETTABLE DAY
Even though I am living in the United States now, I still keep in my mind a very frightening incident that happened to my family in Viet Nam when I was a little boy twenty years ago. Before this event happened, I had had a very wonderful childhood. I lived happily with my whole family including my parents, my oldest brother, and my two uncles. My father was a captain in Vietnamese Republic Army and my uncles were pilots in Vietnamese Republic Air Force. Our lives were so happy that everyone in our family thought we could live together in happiness and warmth forever. Suddently, everything was changed unexpectedly in one day, a terrible day that the Vietnamese Republic government surrendered to the Vietnamese Communist army. As the result, the structure of my family was spilt apart. That day was a nightmare and unforgettable for me as well as my people.
It was a mournful morning in May 1975. There was nothing to see from the window except the falling water beating on the streets and the roof of our house...