daily nebraskan
friday, april 28, 1978
page 10
Vietnamese. . .
Continued from page 1
Nip estimated that as many as 500 eld
erly persons died before they reached Nha
Trang. Those who died near the edge of the
barge were thrown overboard. The corpses
-in the center of the barge were propped up
by the crowd on board until they reached
Nha-Trang.
He said he vividly remembers a family
of five standing near him. Two of the child
ren died and were thrown into the sea. Nip
said the father, feeling responsible for their
deaths, jumped overboard.
That trip, although Nip called it the
worst of the month's long journey, was
only the beginning. He said he feared the
North Vietnamese were chasing him down
the coast. In each of 6 coastal cities, from
Nha Trang to Cam Ranh Base to Phan
Rang to Phan Thiet to Vung Tau, Nip
stayed only a few miles ahead of the North
Vietnamese advance.
Six days later, after hitching rides on
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buses, trucks and fishing boats, he arrived
in Saigon. His stay in Saigon lasted three
weeks.
After the resignation of two presidents
that month, the third, President Duong
Van Minh, ammounced the surrender on
April 30.
As Nip relates it, his final escape was a
thin one in the street outside of his broth
er's home, where he was staying. Separated
from his unit and wearing an officer's uni
form he said his alternatives were to run, or
face death or imprisonment by the Com
munists. He ran. At the harbor he jumped aboard
the first ship he found. The ship, packed
with 2,000 fellow refugees, took him to
Singapore. This voyage was only slightly
more comfortable than the flight from Da
Nang. There was water, but no food.
The next three days he spent in a jail
like compound in Singapore. Though con
ditions were frightful, he said he was glad
to be there. There was food.
In the days following, things improved.
He spent 20 days at Subic Bay, an Ameri
can navy base in the Phillippines. In the
next three months he stayed at Wake Is
land and Fort Chaffee, Ark.
It was a hellish few months, Nip said,
but adds that he does not regret it.
"At least here I have freedom," Nip
said. "But I would like to return. It is my
home."
He spoke almost no English when he ar
rived I could only say "hello" when I was
there."
He has had only one contact with Viet
nam since he arrived. One letter to a friend
in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, got
through.
He does not fear for his family's safety,
he . said. His father was a revolutionary
against the French in the 1950s, and has in
fluential friends in the Communist Party.
Despite the cultural and linguistic bar
riers he faces here, Nip said he has few
complaints, he has been treated well.
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