This website, including its contexts, was created by Scott Phan for the World History AP course on the subject of the Vietnam War. The final assignment of the course was for each individual to come up with a project involving creativity and a sense of historic knowledge while being able to effectively communicate and teach one's class more in-depth or extra unclarified areas or topics throughout world history.
The background image for this page was taken on June 1976, approximately a month and a year after the end of the Vietnam War where not only did it result in Northern Communist Vietnam's victory, but troops from both sides were able to come home from war and drafting to be able to be reunited with their families. The portrait of the man above is my grandfather, Can Pham, who had served in the Vietnam War alongside 3 of my other grandfathers. He had served and supported the Southern Vietnam and constantly faced discrimination during imprisonment in the POW camps, alongside starvation, disease and constant ringing of gunshots and yelling. Can had been drafted in the war around the 1940s and had been in the essential French-Indochina War as well as the war between both halves of Vietnam. Cheers to the man who was not only a hero in my eyes but the eyes of others. Most people cannot brag about how their grandfather rushed into a burning building to save the lives of a child and her mother and countless more stories of his amazing deeds. Who can say their grandfather was a badass that survived a bullet wound to the head and an explosion from a landmine. The spirit and undying determination of the Vietnamese was always instilled into my grandfather, who despite having played a miniscule role alongside the countless veterans, faced tragic scars on the battlefield and would continue to inspire many of us today even after his death on 9.11.14.
The background image for this page was taken on June 1976, approximately a month and a year after the end of the Vietnam War where not only did it result in Northern Communist Vietnam's victory, but troops from both sides were able to come home from war and drafting to be able to be reunited with their families. The portrait of the man above is my grandfather, Can Pham, who had served in the Vietnam War alongside 3 of my other grandfathers. He had served and supported the Southern Vietnam and constantly faced discrimination during imprisonment in the POW camps, alongside starvation, disease and constant ringing of gunshots and yelling. Can had been drafted in the war around the 1940s and had been in the essential French-Indochina War as well as the war between both halves of Vietnam. Cheers to the man who was not only a hero in my eyes but the eyes of others. Most people cannot brag about how their grandfather rushed into a burning building to save the lives of a child and her mother and countless more stories of his amazing deeds. Who can say their grandfather was a badass that survived a bullet wound to the head and an explosion from a landmine. The spirit and undying determination of the Vietnamese was always instilled into my grandfather, who despite having played a miniscule role alongside the countless veterans, faced tragic scars on the battlefield and would continue to inspire many of us today even after his death on 9.11.14.