Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner
Description
With every gleaming hardwood floor Van Luu lays, he puts a little more distance between himself and his tough childhood at the close of the war in Vietnam, where educational and work opportunities were closed to him as the Amerasian son of a Vietnamese mother and an American G.I. father.
Van and his wife Kim have built a successful business in southern Maine. If they seem relieved to have put their life in Vietnam behind them and focus strictly on the good things America has to offer it is little wonder. Amerasians’ rejection by their own cultures added an additional layer of suffering to the one all Vietnamese experienced during the war. “We still miss and remember Vietnam, but also it’s painful for us,” said Kim in 2009. “We’re really happy over here.”
Van and Kim Luu, Vietnam immigrated from Vietnam to Maine and as of 2017, are the owners of A-Z Floor Sanding in South Portland.
About This Item
- Title: Van and Kim Luu, South Portland, 2009
- Creator: Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest
- Creation Date: 2009
- Subject Date: 2017
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Locations:
- South Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Vietnam
- Media: Digital photograph
- Object Type: Image
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- Amerasians--Vietnam.
- Amerasians.
- Emigration & immigration--United States
- Emigration and immigration--Vietnam
- Immigrants--United States--Maine--Portland
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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