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Show Long Lost Brothers: Securing Citizenship for Vietnamese Amerasians C. Petty (Brenda Gunnison) Asian StudiesJUniversity Writing Program, University of Utah The SHsnirvg of the P&m Peace Accords on Januarys. 137 J pulled U& troops oui of Vietnam, lo? study oyOhra State UnwsUfttheyleh behind nearly9W0M 0F1 heir childrpn. Though Anerriin ^iilrdren ?re ptrh^puhe most prelected of any people on earth, these chiHren were all but Forgotten bec?u5e 1 hey were fathered in retrtionsh ip^ wrth ^etnarpew wsnen durlrq an unpopular war a decade aPter thepul^ui cf US troops, these Amerasian rhildippwprtlnrvillv bioucjht to State? through thfAn-iei^jJ^n HLXP€i"ominn Art' Now, w^lc^er another decade later, these Amerasian childrpp Ithounhtheycanrxtfactua In/ be called VhitJien'nnynxire thev are JO 40 year? oH and many hnve t^enaae ^ h iWr^fi thernwl"^esl s1 "II are net rKCfl n ized a? ^rtiE^n? of the UnHed Stales, their f?1 her's Innd My P"' rmes n ip known 1 he diflk u h *?s fwed by? people rejert^d by 1wo countrrFsand to ihowthat granting thern US nLfrantncieou* to thern. It is a step nece^arviownrds n?kinp nn^end? For years of necj Igct. | will di?** on the research oF^uch authors as flobert McKehwy ar>d Trln >^i t^ioucjh" nto the social hardships oF Vietnan^ew Ameraslans, ?ndadd rewire h Imo the spenrVsoF US^itiz^n^hip a^v^ell a? primary research fridud Ing Iniervigws oF Vietnamese- Ameras«nsthemwh«?l mto whv citizenship has m to be granted ?nd how i irnpKt Amernsinns in the lives 1 hey ?re leading nov* *s irnmicjr?nis to Arperirfc ihp |nnd of their fatheis. Si |