Lost Marine was taken in by Major, found a miracle 33 years later
The childhood river of a Navy soldier
On March 28, 1975, Mr. Le Van Duy (SN 1966) moved with his family to the South. When he arrived at Tien Sa port (Da Nang), Mr. Duy lost his parents in the process of transferring ships and leaving the wharf. In the memory of a 9-year-old child, he only remembers the scene of jostling and jostling at the port.
“Before 1975, I missed my hometown in Thua Thien. In 1975, when the war broke out, my father took my mother on a tractor trip from Hue to Da Nang. When arriving at Tien Sa port, prepare to get off the ship. When the little girl went out to sea to transfer to a big ship, my father told me to sit there with Chi so that he could take his mother and two younger siblings first.
While waiting for their parents to take the children away, Duy’s ship suddenly docked at another barge nearby. Duy led me along the rush of people running up the stilts. That night, the two brothers sobbed because they could not find their parents.
“I was so tired, fell asleep, my brother Chi left. At that time I didn’t know where she was going because there were too many people. The next morning the boat left the dock and went on… and I was alone on the barge. with everyone”Mr. Duy recalled.
Mr. Le Van Duy in his youth
Until the ship docked at Cam Ranh port, Mr. Duy wandered around begging for food and was taken in by soldiers of the liberation army. For a while, he was entrusted with the Women’s Union for Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh to raise.
In 1978, Major Hero of the Armed Forces Tran Ngoc Thai – Political Commissar X50 of the Navy – went on a business trip to Cam Ranh and accepted Mr. Duy from Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh to adopt. Mr. Thai brought his son back to Da Nang and changed his name to Tran Ngoc Di.
For the past 33 years, Mr. Duy has lived in the love and care of his kind adoptive father. In 1986, the young man put on a Navy uniform according to his adoptive father’s wishes. In 1994, he got married and had a happy new home. However, the pain of the source is still in the heart. Every New Year’s Eve, watching family members return to their hometown to visit their ancestors, Duy’s son would ask:Dad, where are you from?“.
Duy remembers the river of his childhood in the past
The wound over the years seems to cut into the intestines of a lost child. Eager to find blood again, he wrote an application to the program “As if there was never a separation”, accompanied by a technical drawing.
On that drawing, Mr. Duy sketched out the old village scene according to his vague memory. He said, where he lived, there was a big river, and his father installed a water pump. Duy’s childhood was immersed in the river of childhood with many beautiful memories.
There is also a restaurant for Mother Tinh, a Catholic church… In my family, there are 6 brothers, Duy is the eldest son, below are 5 girls named respectively: Chi, Nga, Nguyet, Lien, Be. Two girls named Nga and Nguyet are twin sisters, who have migrated to live with their grandparents before.
Address map of Mr. Duy sketched from vague memories
The same roots after 33 years
8 years after the show aired, the family of Mr. Le Van Ca (SN 1942) and Mrs. Doan Thi Ai (SN 1948), now living in Ninh Thuan also sent a letter with many similarities with the desire to find a child. lost boy.
“Dear Program As if there was never a separation, my name is Le Van Ca, my wife is Doan Thi Ai. We want to find our first son, while running around at Tien Sa port (Da Nang). ), his name is Le Van Duy, born in 1966. Until today, our family has been exhausted looking for him, because many years of searching there is no hope at all, it is very sad…” .
After the day he lost his son, Mr. Ca’s family drifted to the South, drifted to Phu Quoc Island and then returned to Saigon. When they arrived at their new place, Mr. Ca and Mrs. Ai were tired of waiting. Whenever they heard any news about lost children, they set out to find them.
A letter from Mr. Ca and Mrs. Ai looking for a lost child
Once, hearing news in Binh Tuy (Binh Thuan) that there was a lost child about 10 years old, whose parents’ names match, Mr. Ca went on his way again, but when he got there, he received only disappointment. After decades of searching for children, there was a time when the family’s economy was exhausted, but the grandparents decided not to give up.
Occasionally, the whole family of Mr. Ca returned to his old hometown in Ngo Xa Dong village, Trieu Chung commune, Trieu Phong district, looking for Quang Tri to find clues about his son. The old house, still the yard, the river next to the house or the ice cream truck in the past, Duy used to sell his mother, everything in his memory is still intact.
Compared with the technical drawings that Mr. Duy sent to the program, all the lost information of the two sides are completely coincidental.
Tran Ngoc Di reunites with his family after 33 years of separation
Mr. Tran Ngoc Di (or Le Van Duy himself), living in Tho Quang Ward, Son Tra District, Da Nang City, working in the Navy Region 3 (Da Nang), has found a family like a miracle. Magic. Touching reunion in the middle of the set Like there’s never been a breakup proved the intense vitality of the blood relationship, the origin after 33 years of separation.
Reference source: As if there was never a breakup
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