There’s a famous expression – “Everyone has a story.” And it’s true. We all have ups and downs and highs and lows in life.
But not everyone was born in a war-torn country, had their mother and brothers imprisoned, fled from their homeland in a boat and started life over in a new country on the other side of the world.
This is the tale told by David Truong – and he thought it important enough at least for his own family and friends that there be a record of it.
Truong, who lives in Ashburn’s Broadlands neighborhood with his wife and two children, wrote a book called “Escape to America.” It documents his family’s flight from communist Vietnam in 1977.
“The story does have some unique arcs – Vietnam War, losing a nation, harrowing escape, lost at sea, living on an island, starting over in America,” Truong said.
To read more about Truong’s story – including the long path to writing the book and the time an angry soldier tried to break into the family’s home – head over for the rest of the story on the Ashburn Magazine website here.