My Origin Story From Vietnam | Refugee Experience

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  • Опубліковано 23 лис 2024

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  • @chrisandyeji
    @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому +2

    📖 Learn More! www.chrisnorlund.com/book

  • @cfield1468
    @cfield1468 26 днів тому +3

    So happy you found your family.

  • @sundra9sandifer765
    @sundra9sandifer765 3 місяці тому +2

    Beautiful ❤ thank you for sharing your Life 👏🏾💝

  • @dianasnow8715
    @dianasnow8715 6 місяців тому +30

    Congratulations in finding your family. By the way you must be at least 49 years old yet you look like a teenager.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому +7

      Yes I’m 49 this year :) thank you for watching!

  • @yoberdeb
    @yoberdeb 5 місяців тому +6

    The reason I subscribed to your channel!
    btw, I am an East African guy living in St Paul MN, USA.
    We might not agree on everything Vietnam but for me, I had been following everything Vietnam since I was a kid. The distance the Vietnamese could go to preserve their dignity, against all odds to persevere, the willingness of the Vietnamese people to lose everything so as not to be a slave and kneel down to foreigners had inspired to all colonized people in Africa and beyond. They showed the world that it's better to be a lion for one day than to be a fox for a million years.
    Just wanna throw that in.
    Thank you for your story.

  • @allandevera9451
    @allandevera9451 6 місяців тому +8

    What a story that it took nearly five decades to reunite with your family. Wishing you all the best.

  • @aces7515
    @aces7515 6 місяців тому +9

    I’m so glad this came up in my UA-cam feed, so interesting, thank you!

  • @derrick-ur6hx
    @derrick-ur6hx 5 місяців тому +3

    What an amazing story! I’m glad your family were able to find you. They would be very proud of you and what you’ve achieved. You put out great content - keep up the good work!

  • @andywong5000
    @andywong5000 5 місяців тому +3

    Amazing story for an amazing young man!

  • @apogeedesign4348
    @apogeedesign4348 19 днів тому +2

    wow with this story.. just found about you were part of Operation baby lift C5 crash... id love to help you shoot your doc anytime.. also can connect you with very talented screenwriters friends of mine, I shoot mostly commercials and music videos.. but this sounds like a story that must be told. from here to when you run for office in oregon califorina etc... you should.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  19 днів тому

      You can read more details in my book www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHFJP25 And thank you for the offer :) Wish I could run!

  • @susanstandard8727
    @susanstandard8727 5 місяців тому +3

    And it’s a story worth hearing…. Thank you for sharing.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  5 місяців тому

      Thank you for taking the time to listen :)

  • @joycestrayhorne2412
    @joycestrayhorne2412 4 місяці тому +3

    Congratulations on finding your family. I'm still looking for mine. I was born in Vietnam and was adopted.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  4 місяці тому +1

      Happy you found my channel and sharing your situation also. I encourage you to read my book as well as I imagine we may have had similar experiences. It's good to know you aren't alone.

    • @joycestrayhorne2412
      @joycestrayhorne2412 4 місяці тому +1

      @@chrisandyeji whats the name of your book?

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  4 місяці тому +1

      It's here. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHFJP25 Called Positive Angle.

    • @donaldgoebel6057
      @donaldgoebel6057 28 днів тому

      @joycestrayhome2412 what have you tried in your search for your family? Do you have anyone helping you with your DNA?

    • @joycestrayhorne2412
      @joycestrayhorne2412 27 днів тому

      @donaldgoebel6057 Yes, I did ansetry, and 23 and me a few years ago, but I have no immediate family on the Vietnamese side of my family except for a 1st cousin, but they're blocked so I can't messages. I did find a half-brother on my paternal side. He's from Germany, wow, but now lives in the United States. We talk sometimes.

  • @audramitchell9894
    @audramitchell9894 6 місяців тому +3

    Congratulations on finding your family . It was like a needle in a haystack . You where lost and now you've been found .

  • @hildajones1426
    @hildajones1426 5 місяців тому +2

    Just come across you channel so so interested. Am sure be following your story.from your new subscriber from Australia.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  5 місяців тому

      Thanks for finding our channel! You can find more videos on reconnecting with family and also check out my book :) Hope all is well in Aussie land!

  • @TheTravelingClatt
    @TheTravelingClatt 6 місяців тому +10

    I'm happy for you brother. My family come from refugees from Iraq that were kicked out for being Jewish.
    War is horrible, ethnic cleansings are horrible. I'm happy there a positive aspect to your story.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому +3

      I hope you and your family are safe also. My opinion on all these kinds of the things is that it starts with teaching the young people to learn to live in peace with each other. Obviously it's difficult given horrible things that happen in the past, but that's why we must learn from it.

    • @nocancelcultureaccepted9316
      @nocancelcultureaccepted9316 6 місяців тому

      Muslims can’t tolerate any other religion, let alone the Jews. Sadly, the Muslims are spreading and changing the fabric of the Western society we know and love.

  • @ricegum7583
    @ricegum7583 6 місяців тому +8

    Amazing story, I need to see the vids u made before on it!

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching! You'll find a few more videos before this one and also I wrote a book.

  • @leoningold1412
    @leoningold1412 6 місяців тому +7

    Thanks for sharing your story, Chris… really happy for you and your family!
    That you are even here to relay it to us is amazing…I am sure you don’t take life for granted and appreciate even the little things?!
    I was born in Australia - and have a blessed life. One of the greatest and most tolerant Countries in the world, I would like to think.
    Regards Leon

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому

      Always be happy to be alive and live life to the fullest :)

  • @anthonyvu3231
    @anthonyvu3231 6 місяців тому +5

    You have an interesting story. Both of my parents were boat people from Vietnam. I was born in America 🤭

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому

      You will really like and identify with my book www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHFJP25

  • @rosean374
    @rosean374 6 місяців тому +5

    Wow what a life story❤

  • @themantran
    @themantran 6 місяців тому +3

    There are a lot of poignant stories from the end of the war that would make a good story line. I just met a man from the other day who was a military officer in the South Vietnamese army. He said when Saigon fell the US was going to airlift him to the US but his wife or girlfriend at the time didn't want to go, so he stayed back with her. He then was sent to re-education camp for 10 years. They eventually got married and moved to the US when he applied for VISA. He told me he doesn't know which is worse, staying back and go to prison for 10 years or to leave VN with nothing, in a strange land without any friends or family, not knowing the language, starting from scratch.
    Everyone during that era suffered some kind of traumatic event that is very interesting to hear. I've heard of a lot of harrowing events after the war with the boat people. It would be good to record everything down either with video or blog.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому

      I wrote a book and document what I can :)

    • @nocancelcultureaccepted9316
      @nocancelcultureaccepted9316 6 місяців тому +2

      Sadly, some of the boat people don’t learn from the hardships and continue to commit crimes in America after several decades leaving Vietnam.

    • @TheSMR1969
      @TheSMR1969 6 місяців тому

      Traitors don't deserve mercy, helping a country that was commiting genocide against Vietnamese people

    • @mimisor66
      @mimisor66 5 місяців тому

      Poor guy, 10 years in a re-education camp and then starting all over again from scratch. These were resilient people in very troubled times.

  • @USA_BL_Fans
    @USA_BL_Fans 6 місяців тому +8

    Dang it, you are older than me, but you look way younger than me.
    I hope the final DNA test is a match. This is an amazing story. I will share it on FB and subscribe. Good luck!

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому +1

      Appreciate you watching. I wrote a book about the story too that you might like :)

  • @biglance
    @biglance 6 місяців тому +5

    This is the craziest story...man....I thought maybe you dad was American and Mom was Vietnamese...I bet you could get Vietnamese dual citizenship or at the very least a long term visa to live there, buy land etc. Do you have a Vietnamese birth certificate or anything from when you were born on the base? I will buy your book, good luck with everything man, I love Pusan btw, lived in Korea many years, peace be with you man.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  6 місяців тому +3

      Thanks for picking up a copy of my book :) It's been a crazy journey, it's unbelievable even to me and I lived it. My wife and I lived in a Vietnam while I was working there for a little bit, but Busan is our home. We can always visit there as it's fairly close to here :)

  • @EasyDIYWithNeelam
    @EasyDIYWithNeelam 5 місяців тому +4

    No way he looks 49 years old😮😮..why don't you share your secrets to stay young❤

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  5 місяців тому

      Check out a copy of my book www.chrisnorlund.com/book :)

  • @stargazer5073
    @stargazer5073 5 місяців тому

    I'm confused, airplane crash, was another child lost? How did you survive crash?

  • @precise-w3y
    @precise-w3y 6 місяців тому +4

    you grew up well

  • @rodbutler4054
    @rodbutler4054 4 місяці тому +2

    You speak like a Native American. Where were you educated? Is Vietnam now your home?

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  4 місяці тому

      You can find more details in my book :) www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHFJP25

  • @michellesalimbay8629
    @michellesalimbay8629 5 місяців тому +3

    You look 30’s

  • @ashho313
    @ashho313 5 місяців тому +1

    I hope I look like u when I get old ASIANS DONT RASIENS

  • @lorib4516
    @lorib4516 5 місяців тому +2

    Are you Really 50 years old? you look 21.

    • @chrisandyeji
      @chrisandyeji  5 місяців тому

      You can read details in my book :) www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHFJP25

  • @scogginsscoggins
    @scogginsscoggins 5 місяців тому +1

    Why were the American Army in Vietnam? Three million Vietnamese perished.