The American Surgeon Who Escaped the Viet Cong
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Hoat Hoang's childhood in South Vietnam was filled with family and fun times... Until the North Vietnamese communists began to ambush his village. Once Saigon fell to the communists' troops, Hoat and his family fled. Hoat tells the story of their escape and his journey to becoming a surgeon in the U.S.
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