WEBVTT - Chapter 5 – The Fire Comes 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.680 My name is Trim, and this is Saigon, the story 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.120 of my family and of the country that shaped us. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.640 The United States will not stand by and allow any power, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.759 however great, the April another time, or. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:32.720 You would be a natural explosion as well on new. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.599 Land, A bad eighty batlen Land, life of eighty Ball. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.919 That can be no peace without justice, and that can 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.600 be no justice without peace. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:55.920 Chapter five. For a long time there was confusion over 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.880 who had died and who had surrendered at d envy 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:04.240 n Fo. Months later, after the French abdicated and Vietnam 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.600 was split into a communist north and a supposedly democratic south, 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.840 the surviving prisoners were sent home. When Paul was not 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.319 among them, Some thought he could have been one of 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:22.520 the seventy who escaped into Lao, but eventually reports of 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.160 his death were accepted, and two years after the fall 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:30.440 of d Enbien Fu, a memorial service for Paul Devaux 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.280 was finally held in. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:45.960 Saigon Benedictus Deus Benedictus nomad Sanctum Aus Benedictus Jesus Christus 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.760 Verus Deus se verus. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.640 Omo for his widow Land and her parents. A full 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.880 Latin requiem mass was an alien experiences. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.240 Didn't understand a word of it, did you, dear me? 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.920 Nothing land No. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.920 Beautiful of course, yeah, in its own European way. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:13.200 Paul would have loved it. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:20.200 Ah, well, coffee, what about catheline. I need a little 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.800 break before I hit back to work. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.400 I'll wait for Joseph. But if you get a table, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:25.760 we'll meet you there, will order? 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:26.040 Then? 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.799 Come on, husband, Yes, I'm coming, I'm coming Joseph. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.320 Ah, there you are, Oh my godly. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.240 Joseph had flown in from America the day before and 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.880 had listened to the service from the back with the 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.079 general congregation. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.840 What a fitting farewell, Yes, a full requiem mass. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.760 Yes, it was very nice. He was a good man. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:55.880 You're okay. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:02.840 I'm fine, always happier when you're here. Let's walk this way. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.639 My father's finding us a table at Katheline. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.560 Ah, I didn't see too yet. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.560 No, she put her foot down. She said she's not 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.720 interested in a Latin mass for a Frenchman she barely met. Really, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.120 she's twenty. We all held strong views at twenty. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:24.280 Is she a communist? 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.760 No? A nationalist, that's what she claims. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.040 What started all this? 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:35.720 You me, well, your country, not you personally. When the 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.120 French gave up power, she was hoping a united Vietnam 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:43.000 would become self ruled through an elected leader. Instead, America 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.440 installed the Prime Minister who kept the South separate and 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:46.640 canceled the elections. 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.080 But at least Prime Minister DM is Vietnamese. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.880 He's also Catholic in to Yette's size, that's just America 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.880 replacing one colonial power with another. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.080 Maybe I should talk to her. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.440 If you think you can change her mind. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.960 You can't, you know, Ln. I was hoping to keep 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.000 this for later, but I threw caution to the wind 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.440 this time and booked flights back to America for both 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.000 of you. No, don't just sigh. If you and two 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.839 yet could see what we have to offer, I know 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.120 you'd be happy there. We could. We could open a 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.840 branch of your father's business. He could visit too. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:26.560 What about your wife? 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.120 You know we only stayed together for Gary, and now 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.080 he's all grown up, he's about to start college. It's 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:34.599 it's more or less over now. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.200 And away. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:37.160 Goes up. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:41.000 Where have you been? 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:49.720 Coffees arrived? We should toast, Yeah, Paul was always toasting something. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:50.640 Mm hmm. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:53.080 To Connel. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.320 Paul deverrel to pull Santa. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.520 Such a tragedy. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.080 I was going to ask him to join the company, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.000 you know, coax him out of the army into something 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.240 more secure. I have to find someone to take the 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.400 reins when I'm no longer able to hold them. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:10.800 Oh why not Land? 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.240 Oh no, no, actually I hadn't thought. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.240 Oh no, no, my daughter isn't interested in business. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.039 Excuse me, mother, I haven't said that. Oh I just 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:22.440 haven't thought about it. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.919 I think you'd be terrific. You're great with people, you 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.039 have a real skill. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.320 Yes, and business is mostly relationships. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.000 To sell a commodity in this new regime, you need 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.240 a government license, and to get a license you need influence. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.280 And to have influence you need either charm or money, 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.240 or both, which can involve some tiresome haggling. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.360 Oh come on, father, you love the haggling. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.719 I think we both do, if we're honest. Maybe, although 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.960 our workers are the real hagglers. They're much worse than 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.040 government officials. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:56.599 You know. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.000 They seem to hate us, even when we do so 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.200 much for them. Yeah, we create jobs, opportunities, pay their wages, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.360 and yet all they do is complain about the hours 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.960 or conditions. Nothing's ever good enough. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.159 Now it's not sounding so attractive. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.960 No, on the contrary, you would probably wrap them around 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.880 your little finger. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.080 I doubt it. I've haggled buying bananas, but I've never 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.440 really negotiated anything. 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:21.240 We'll come and. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:21.880 See what it's like. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:23.520 I have a meeting in half an hour. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.360 Land, husband, Please don't twist her arm. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.159 I'm not twisting her arm with Pierre Montande. He owns 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.440 the Citron license for South Vietnam. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.680 Now the French are no longer in power, he needs 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:35.640 a Vietnamese partner. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.560 You should go Land. No, she shouldn't strike while the 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:39.200 iron's hot. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.159 Can I just think about it first? 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.880 I was just saying, Monsieur Hugh, we could look at 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.800 opening an office of your company in America. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.880 We could I have thought about expanding, and that's what 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:51.800 this meeting's about. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:53.920 Just go see what you think. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.479 Don't let them pressure your daughter. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.320 Ah, come on, just come and listen. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.720 I'll get the check and escort Adam Hugh back to 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:01.159 the villa. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:01.880 Thank you. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.640 You go, then this this could make a real difference. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.279 Good good, good, Okay, I'll hear a taxi for us. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:11.440 Go so well. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.880 Joseph paid for the coffees, Madame Hugh sat and watched 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.120 her daughter and husband stride to the edge of the 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.040 square and flag down a cyclone. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.360 Okay, come on inside, inside after you. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:22.920 But before they could get in. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:28.200 Here, boss, come on so here, Fleas. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:27.920 Wait in a moment, it's me. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.800 Yes, you don't remember. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.560 No, I'm sorry letting you. I was a foreman on 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.240 your plantation before you. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:40.880 This is me. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.320 Oh, yes, yes, you were organizing the workers into a collective. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.640 This meant Lund would have stopped production and cost us thousands. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:54.400 Until you pay this fairly. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.800 Yes, yes, yes, good for you. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:58.400 Come on, Lon, let's go. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.080 Still watching from the table in the cafe, Madame Hugh frowned, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:08.840 without knowing what was being said. It just didn't look right. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.000 Okay, you ready, Madam? 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.800 Here, what's going on over there where? 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:17.880 Joseph looked across. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.960 What do you think, Joseph, do you know him? 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.720 Land was now sitting in the cyclo, but as her 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:33.440 father tried to join her. As the man struggled with 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:38.640 Messyr Hugh, Joseph noticed something was strapped to his chest. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.040 He's got something. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.640 A wire fell from under his shirt. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:54.400 No, no, praydom. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.160 I had a baby. Joseph Our child cried for you 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.240 the little boy who lost his wife. Hearing you talk, 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.000 oh my hand. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:43.080 Hours later, Joseph took Madame you home when they reached 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.400 the villa. You're really told you yet what had happened, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:10:00.000 and then waited in the garden room. 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:01.440 M How is she too yet? 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.559 She wants you to leave, mister Sherman. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.360 Yes, yes, of course I'll come back later. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.640 That's okay, She says, you have brought this family sadness 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.640 too many times, and my mother would still be alive 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.240 if you hadn't insisted she go to that meeting. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:21.160 I didn't what. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:30.480 You didn't? What are you going to rewrite history now, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:31.160 mister Sherman. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.360 I loved her too too, yet she. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:42.560 Didn't want to be a capitalist. That was you killed her. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.840 I booked a ticket to bring you back to America. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:48.800 What are you talking about? 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.800 Just listen to me please for a second. Can you 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:53.720 please listen? 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.600 You can't just take me back to America. Who the 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:57.600 hell do you think you are? 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.960 I am your father too yet, and Vietnam is not 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.440 psych you know Vietnam. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.360 All you do is appear every few years and write 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:15.240 about us like with some sort of curiosity. There's a 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.240 fire coming to this country and it's going to burn 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:25.160 out everything, all the corruption, all the exploitation, and I'm 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:26.360 going to be part of it. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.240 Okay. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.160 Joseph could see that Land had been right. It was 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.559 hopeless trying to change to Yette's mind. She was beyond reach. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.120 Land had been the love of his life and losing 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.600 to yet would double the blow. But when they met 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.280 again a few days later at Land's funeral, it would 0:11:52.320 --> 0:12:00.680 be the last contact they'd have for many years. Joseph 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.600 flew back to America again and didn't return to Vietnam 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.000 until he was sent there by Associated Press in nineteen 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.240 sixty three. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.360 Let on right or lay You've gotten to be? 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.480 John Glenna. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.960 The nineteen sixties brought in a time of change, and 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:26.120 America started courting the wider world with a new president, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.440 John F. Kennedy and a fresh outlook. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.880 That's the word go bought from this time and late 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.560 to a friend and full alike that we You'll pay 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:44.959 any price, there, any burden, meet any hard gift, co 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:50.320 bought any brand up, Oh any foe? Who are You're? 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.280 The survival? Canne success of. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:13:08.360 Limity in Vietnam. The forces fighting for liberty were Communists, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:13.400 while the supposed democracy America supported was an unelected and 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:19.400 very unpopular government, a situation that attracted journalists from all 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.320 over the world. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.760 Although Premier Key has restored order in some sections of 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:25.640 his torn republic. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.840 This is Miami, Howell and I am a few blocks 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.040 from the presidential palace. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.560 In Psycho First demonstrations broke out one students, Buddhists and 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.480 other group's protests as acusing. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.560 His own people is making his position more precarious by 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:38.959 the day. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.520 Aigon remains a city of violence and unresk the administrations 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:43.959 in this former French colony. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:48.200 French rule in Vietnam was hated for decades, but now 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.920 America is only one step away from taking on the 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:57.000 same role. Could history repeat itself. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.280 And was great? 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.960 Navy, Naomi Howell and Todd Shashka were a news team 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.440 working for British movie Tone Moments. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:08.960 Would you want to Get It? But he gives him 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.680 an hour or so to get to the palace. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.400 I've got an old friend to meet and we might 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.200 as well let the crowd LB cups in the passion 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:16.760 see what the palace about? 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.280 Midday Yeah, Joe. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.640 Naomi hurried to a small cafe where an old friend 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.080 was waiting. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:33.400 Joseph, Naomi House, Thanks, keeping busy. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.240 Well, just having a break from covering the Buddhist demonstration. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.640 What about you, Yeah, filing on the same thing for 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:40.760 Associated Press. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.600 Do you think it'll make President DM change anything. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.480 Nope, He'll probably just get his brother to arrest as 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.120 many poor suckers as he can go. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.480 So during the late fifties, President DM's gangster like brother, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.120 Nodan New had formed a secret special force, which was 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.640 now just adding. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.000 To the chaos. What do you make of New? 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.600 He's dangerously autocratic and Washington doesn't like it. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.960 It feels like something's about to break. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.600 Yeah, it could all go to hell very quickly. Ah, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.240 here he is. I hope you don't mind. My son's 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.680 on R and R and I thought he could join 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:24.240 us absolutely. Gary here, Hey, yeah, yeah, take a seat, Naomi. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.040 This is Lieutenant Gary Sherman. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:27.360 Hi. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:29.640 Naomi's out here from the UK. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.920 Oh right, the movie tone girl. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.640 Thanks, Joseph, Is that how you talk about me? 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.680 That's true, don't worry. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.080 He also calls you an island of sanity in a 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.239 river of madness. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:47.760 All right, I'll take that. So, have you been out 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.280 on patrol fighting the Viet cong fighting me. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.480 No, I'm sorry, Naomi, but our president has made it 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.080 very clear. The only Americans here at the moment are 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.560 the military advisors to the South Vietnamese Army. 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.920 Oh, sixteen thousand of you. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.840 Well, they need a lot of advice. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.800 And where about weren't. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:13.560 You East Mekong Delta? Usual thing looking for communist sympathizers 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.040 find any Oh? 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:15.680 Hell yeah? 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:16.520 Everywhere? 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:21.440 Our platoon was attacked seven times, three dead, nine wounded. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.920 We're not winning, I'll tell you that is. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:30.000 Any of this on the record, No, God, no, could 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.040 it be. You'd be up for an interview, wouldn't you, Gary? 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:35.440 Uh? 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.480 Look, I'd need permission, which you face it, you'll never get. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:40.520 Why not? 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.480 Oh, come on, Naomi, it is pretty unlikely. 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:52.160 Okay, okay, okay, okay. Off the record. Then why do 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:53.080 you think we're not winning? 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.360 Because ninety percent of the country doesn't want us here 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.000 and this sort of democracy were given them looks terrible. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:02.320 What if we sold it better? 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.760 I wish it were that simple, trust me. But yeah, Look, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.240 don't get me wrong. I don't want to see the 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.399 commies win. They're just bastards. But the whole country's a 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.159 never ending surprise packet. You think you can read it, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.480 and then you get a curveball. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.480 In fact that. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.720 Let me tell you about the last curveball. The final 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.600 day on patrol, we were clearing minds the French had 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:33.680 left behind, and some VCS took us by surprise, both flanks, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:39.600 total ambush, took out our captain. We scattered and called 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.640 for a huie, and then a whole bunch more started 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.920 pouring out of the tunnels everywhere. Yeah, they've dug them 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.439 all over the place. And I was ducking and running 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.160 and this girl popped out of the ground in front 0:17:53.200 --> 0:18:00.119 of me. Oh, black Viat Cong gear pants, top for 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.960 my pistol, but she already had hers aimed at my head. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:05.600 And then. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.399 Then it was so weird. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:13.760 Did you take her down? 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:14.240 No? 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.880 I couldn't. Neither of us could because she. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:22.399 I mean we both. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.240 We could both feel it. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:27.200 We were like. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.320 Looking at ourselves. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.440 No, what do you mean? 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.360 Have you still got that photo of two yet? Yeah? 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:40.359 Who my half sister two yet? Dad had a daughter 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.400 here with a Viet girl before we met Mom. 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:49.000 Uh you slyile dull. There you go. She would have 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.719 been about nineteen then, I mean she might have changed. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.560 No, she hasn't. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:03.639 It was definitely her your half sisters Viet Cong and 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.000 you nearly killed each other. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.120 Now, I've really wanted an interview. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:11.520 Did you know she was VC? 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.600 She dad? 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.720 Not exactly, well, not for certain. But the last time 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:20.520 we spoke. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:34.320 She she what what'd she say? 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.840 The last time Joseph spoke to his daughter too Yet 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.520 had been seven long years ago, on the morning of 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:47.240 her mother Land's funeral procession in nineteen fifty six. Following tradition, 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.280 a single bamboo flautist had led the way as the 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.800 coffins of Land and her father were carried from the 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.960 villa to the family tomb. Joseph had waited on the 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.440 curb outside, and as everyone left the house, Madam Hugh 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:03.400 had ignored him. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:09.800 But to yet you're not welcome, Joseph. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:11.000 I loved her. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:12.680 Too, Yet I don't care. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.280 You caused all her unhappiness. You shouldn't even be here. 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:19.760 What do you mean? 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.360 I'm your father, I mean all. 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.679 Of you, not just you, all Americans. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:27.520 What are you even doing here? 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:28.480 It's not your country. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:29.160 Just go home? 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.080 No, I will, I am, But come with me, Yeah, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.720 come with You're half American too, Yet you know I'm 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.040 not Oh, Okay, okay, well come back, you come back 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.800 and see? Why not just try it? Yeah? Let me 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.160 let me look look after you come back. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.119 And why do Americans think everyone wants to be American? 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.080 You're all so self censored. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.040 I don't look at you as a father. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.359 But that can change. People can change too. Yet, let 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.399 me try. I can try harder, it won't. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.920 There's the man I look at as a father. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.159 Who come. 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.480 She led him to the back of the procession, where 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:23.480 a thin bearded man walked alone. Kim Land's brother to 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:27.320 Yette's uncle. He and Joseph had one spot together to 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.440 defeat the Japanese, and he was now one of Hoji 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.240 Minh's trusted deputies. 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:35.400 How did you even. 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:42.120 You wanted terrorists? If I call the police right now, would. 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.840 You, though, Joseph, is that what you want to do? 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.439 No? I know you. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.479 Could you have betrayed friends before? 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:51.800 Well? 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.680 Did Paul de Vroo ever discover how you betrayed him? 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:56.399 With my sister? 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.320 It's a complicated Did you ever have the courage to 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:00.719 face that conversation? 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:02.879 Betraying me? 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:07.639 However, we mean betraying your daughter as well? Can you 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:13.160 do that? I think not even Americans have a grain 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:20.160 of loyalty to something to you. Please drive us say 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.880 nothing no more, let us bury our beautiful lane. 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:26.359 And then do it. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.920 It's coming with me, Come on, do it. 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:46.639 Good Bye, Joseph. 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:54.320 That was seven years ago now, but I remember thinking 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:58.199 even then, how could too yet have possibly got a 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:00.000 message to her uncle about her mother? 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:07.480 She was already in the Viet Con Almost certainly my 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:08.760 sister's the enemy. 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:16.360 Wow, well, I suppose so politically. But on the other hand, 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:19.720 you know, personally, I think it says a lot that 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.520 neither of you could shoot the other. That is such 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:27.000 a relief. And if you ever sat down together, you 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:31.280 might even find you like each other. Not everyone's the enemy. 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:36.399 Say that again. I've got no idea who the enemy is. 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:39.320 I came out here thinking it was communism. But then 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:41.879 you're backing a president who's locking up Buddhists and burning 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:42.600 their temples. 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:47.400 Do you really want to be on his side? I'm confused? 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:54.080 Yeah, me too, now know me? Hi Todd, Oh, come on, 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:54.560 we gotta go. 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:57.040 Those demonstrators aren't going to the palace. They're stopping at 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:58.160 Fandine from Boulevard. 0:23:58.320 --> 0:23:58.560 Why. 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:00.600