He "fled" Vietnam after the fall (liberation) of Saigon:

Mr. Hyunh is an immigrant from Vietnam. He was born sometime after 1949 ("Snow"), but he was already a young adult with a baby daughter in 1975 when the Vietnam War came to its dramatic climax.

At the conclusive battle of the war (the Fall of Saigon), the United States sent helicopters to evacuate South Vietnamese citizens. Mr. Hyunh and many others abandoned their old lives and attempted to board the last helicopter, but the pilot claimed only one more was allowed on board. Mr. Hyunh offered his daughter and she was taken aboard, never to be seen again for many years.

https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Hyunh.

So.... what was he?

  • handystack [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Listen, all ARVN that could flee in 75 did flee. The ones who failed to get out faced brutal treatment in the reeducation camps. The South Vietnamese battle flag -not the flag of Vietnam- flies over every pho shop in the USA now. The ARVN fought for royalism and capitalism. Does that make them "bad"? Maybe so; that's for you to decide. I find it doesn't matter much. They will be dead soon. Their children and grandchildren are our peers, and their political allegiances will eclipse those of the refugee generation soon enough.