ABOVE: AKUNA SHIP IN RESCUE MISSION IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, JULY 12, 1981
July 12, 1981 | Rescuing Mission of Vietnamese Boat People in the South China Sea by the SS Akuna, with 58-year-old Colonel Jack Bailey and 19 crew members, including a 30-year-old doctor named Patrick, a French doctor named Allen Phillips, and another French Colonel. Dad believed Colonel Jack Bailey was the same captain of this AKuna ship which rescued Dad and 67 other Vietnamese boat people 21 months earlier, on April 14, 1979, in the Gulf of Thailand.
HOW THIS VIDEO WAS DISCOVERED ON THE WEB 29 YEARS LATER:
Dad's Facebook friend, Bernard Macdougall, found this video on the Internet and shared with Dad on July 1, 2010. Mr. Macdougall, currently living in Brisbane, Australia, is a former volunteer helping Vietnamese boat refugees in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He took many photographs of the Akuna vessel during its mission to rescue the Vietnamese boat people in the South China Sea.
LINK TO VIDEO:
http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/ju
GO TO FACEBOOK ALBUM FOR STILL IMAGES OF VIDEO:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=64
http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/ju
GO TO FACEBOOK ALBUM FOR STILL IMAGES OF VIDEO:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=64
ABOVE VIDEO: UNCLE BOB AND HIS VIETNAMESE CHILDREN
'Uncle Bob and his Vietnamese Children' is a documentary film about a Canadian man, Robert Sargent, and his volunteer efforts to help settle the Vietnamese boat refugees in Toronto during the late seventies to early eighties. This film is part of director Sue Chun's Canadian Multicultural Heritage series for Jane-Finch.com.
Below is a great video about a group of former Vietnamese boat refugees having a 30-year Reunion. The video has interesting visual clips, photographs, personal stories about their dangerous journey in the South China Sea and the cultural shocks of staring a new life in England.
DAD'S BOAT JOURNEY'S SONG: "BIỂN NHỚ"
"Biển Nhớ" or "Sea Of Memory" is a classic Vietnamese song, written by the legendary music composer, Trịnh Công Sơn, 1939-2001. This is the song that Dad fell in love with during his boat journey in 1979. While staying at the refugee camp in Indonesia. He listened to this song by the popular Vietnamese singer, Khánh Ly, over and over on the small cassette tape player that belonged to the boat owner, Mr. Đồng Tôn. "Biển Nhớ" tells the story that commonly shared with many Vietnamese boat people that fled their beloved homeland after the end of the Vietnam War. They left behind their loved ones and went to the sea with uncertainness, risking their lives for the unknown, in search for freedom and a better life. Below is a YouTube video, showing Khánh Ly performing the very sad, but very very beautiful song-- "Biển Nhớ" –– more than 30 years later:
"Biển Nhớ" or "Sea Of Memory" is a classic Vietnamese song, written by the legendary music composer, Trịnh Công Sơn, 1939-2001. This is the song that Dad fell in love with during his boat journey in 1979. While staying at the refugee camp in Indonesia. He listened to this song by the popular Vietnamese singer, Khánh Ly, over and over on the small cassette tape player that belonged to the boat owner, Mr. Đồng Tôn. "Biển Nhớ" tells the story that commonly shared with many Vietnamese boat people that fled their beloved homeland after the end of the Vietnam War. They left behind their loved ones and went to the sea with uncertainness, risking their lives for the unknown, in search for freedom and a better life. Below is a YouTube video, showing Khánh Ly performing the very sad, but very very beautiful song-- "Biển Nhớ" –– more than 30 years later:
Below: Khánh Ly performed "Biển Nhớ" with Trịnh Công Sơn, during the Vietnam War era.
Below: Khánh Ly performed "Biển Nhớ" for a Thúy Nga Paris Music Video Production.
Following are random videos on the Web of the song "Biển Nhớ" or by other artists.
