Interview with Tien Tran, a Vietnamese immigrant to the United States, about his experience in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He discusses the death of his mother when he was a young boy, his father's decision to not remarry and raise the three children himself while working in the rice fields, and the family leaving North Vietnam to settle in Saigon, South Vietnam, when the countries were divided in 1954. He also describes his enlistment in the military in 1962, his training and service, and medals and ranks he achieved. He later left Vietnamese by boat and lived at a Malaysian refugee camp before immigrating to the United States in 1980, ending up in Kansas City, where he was later joined by his wife and children, and all became citizens. He discusses being involved in several local Vietnamese organizations.