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  1. In the tent… the sound of rain becomes a sad melody.
    We love it because it’s رزق (a blessing)… but we fear it because it can steal our warmth in a single moment 💔
    Under this thin piece of fabric,
    live hearts that no storm can break,
    and a determination stronger than the tent stake driven into the ground…
    You will never truly understand this feeling unless you have lived it…
    To the people of the tents — we raise our hats to you
    But we are still human… we get tired, we get hungry, and we need someone to stand with us 🤍
    Any support—even a small one—can make a real difference in our lives
    gofund.me/2790a0f8
    #Gaza #HelpGaza #StandWithGaza #EmergencyRelief
    #SaveLives #HumanityFirst #DonateNow #SupportFamilies
    #WarSurvivors #RefugeeLife #HelpThoseInNeed #KindnessMatters
    #FromTheTent #VoicesOfGaza #DontIgnore

  2. If you thought my life was worth saving - please understand why we, as a family of living #WarSurvivors - fully #SupportPalestine. Palestinian kids deserve to live too.

    Please keep supporting them. Search for the #GazaVerified hashtag, if you're able to donate funds to assist #Gaza folks in serious need.

    #FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #SanctionIsrael #BoycottIsrael

  3. If you thought my life was worth saving - please understand why we, as a family of living #WarSurvivors - fully #SupportPalestine. Palestinian kids deserve to live too.

    Please keep supporting them. Search for the #GazaVerified hashtag, if you're able to donate funds to assist #Gaza folks in serious need.

    #FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #SanctionIsrael #BoycottIsrael

  4. If you thought my life was worth saving - please understand why we, as a family of living #WarSurvivors - fully #SupportPalestine. Palestinian kids deserve to live too.

    Please keep supporting them. Search for the #GazaVerified hashtag, if you're able to donate funds to assist #Gaza folks in serious need.

    #FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #SanctionIsrael #BoycottIsrael

  5. If you thought my life was worth saving - please understand why we, as a family of living #WarSurvivors - fully #SupportPalestine. Palestinian kids deserve to live too.

    Please keep supporting them. Search for the #GazaVerified hashtag, if you're able to donate funds to assist #Gaza folks in serious need.

    #FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #SanctionIsrael #BoycottIsrael

  6. If you thought my life was worth saving - please understand why we, as a family of living #WarSurvivors - fully #SupportPalestine. Palestinian kids deserve to live too.

    Please keep supporting them. Search for the #GazaVerified hashtag, if you're able to donate funds to assist #Gaza folks in serious need.

    #FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #SanctionIsrael #BoycottIsrael

  7. I think most #WarSurvivors would agree that obtaining #peace , #sovereignty & #freedoms - by resistance forces, after suffering multiple generations of brutal war violence - are cognizant that our peace is very sacred & fragile. That peace must be protected by the peoples because it's never guaranteed for life - especially by our governments.

    We should always use our voices to speak out when peace is threatened by warmongering evil people, who lack #humanity.
    We are the global #peacekeepers - the peoples of the world, who are sick & tired of endless wars & dastardly #geopolitical power grabs.

    #WarSurvivorsForPeace #StopKillingPeople

  8. I ask every single living Vietnam US military invader the same kind of questions - here is a small sample ->

    - Did you come to murder us, voluntarily - remember that I have access to all of your military records. Tell the truth!
    - Did you only come here to earn a dirty paycheck?
    - Do you regret being a mass murdering invader?
    - What stories do you tell your wife/wives & your kids - about killing our family & kids?
    - How many Vietnamese women have you raped?
    - How many Vietnamese kids have you shot in the head?

    #AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #WeStillHere #WarSurvivors

  9. #Payback overdue #USA.
    Your country annihilated over half of my family members & in 2025 - we're still fighting your warmongering asses for reparations & damages on our lands/waters/peoples.

    I never forgot. I never forgave. Neither do billions of other #GlobalSouth #WarSurvivors / #WarBabies.

    #FuckTheUSA #USWarCrimes #DeathToUSA

  10. #Payback overdue #USA.
    Your country annihilated over half of my family members & in 2025 - we're still fighting your warmongering asses for reparations & damages on our lands/waters/peoples.

    I never forgot. I never forgave. Neither do billions of other #GlobalSouth #WarSurvivors / #WarBabies.

    #FuckTheUSA #USWarCrimes #DeathToUSA

  11. #Payback overdue #USA.
    Your country annihilated over half of my family members & in 2025 - we're still fighting your warmongering asses for reparations & damages on our lands/waters/peoples.

    I never forgot. I never forgave. Neither do billions of other #GlobalSouth #WarSurvivors / #WarBabies.

    #FuckTheUSA #USWarCrimes #DeathToUSA

  12. #Payback overdue #USA.
    Your country annihilated over half of my family members & in 2025 - we're still fighting your warmongering asses for reparations & damages on our lands/waters/peoples.

    I never forgot. I never forgave. Neither do billions of other #GlobalSouth #WarSurvivors / #WarBabies.

    #FuckTheUSA #USWarCrimes #DeathToUSA

  13. #Payback overdue #USA.
    Your country annihilated over half of my family members & in 2025 - we're still fighting your warmongering asses for reparations & damages on our lands/waters/peoples.

    I never forgot. I never forgave. Neither do billions of other #GlobalSouth #WarSurvivors / #WarBabies.

    #FuckTheUSA #USWarCrimes #DeathToUSA

  14. The only ones I even consider forgiving are the US military who were drafted/forced to go & kill our peoples. Not the ones who stepped up & volunteered to go where they should not be, to follow orders from their #warmonger #WarProfiteering #ColonialControl muthafucking "leaders".

    #USWarCrimes #WarSurvivors

  15. It took my grandparents over 12 years to be able to safely enter & start new lives in South Vietnam. My Dad was born in a refugees camp in Thailand. Then my 3 Aunties were born in Cambodia before they could resettle in Saigon. Unlike USA folks trying to leave - my grandparents & then my parents, decades after, faced live missile bombings & daily gunfire. We also didn't face crossing only land borders - we were at open seas for weeks. We fucking hunted for bugs & rats to eat at refugees camp. We are NOT the same. We understand your desperation. You(most Westerners) are choosing to place your white suffering over hundreds of years of POC sufferings, that are still ongoing.

    When BIPOC people say - Check your fucking privilege! If you feel a tiny bit offended - you likely need to do several deeper checks with yourself.

    #AsianMastodon #TootSEA #AsianDiaspora #WarSurvivors #GlobalSouth #BornInSaigon

  16. The Wind Still Blows.

    The wind blows hard n heavy - my ethics do not shift.
    The waves grow large & ride over human-made structures - my ethics do not sway.
    The ground quakes & shakes, underneath my feet - my ethics stay grounded.
    The skies scream & exert the many pains from suffering abusive human exploitation.
    My ethics feel matched, while my heart/spirit feels bittersweetness.
    The wind still blows, despite it all.

    - Que P. Banh.

    #AccidentalPoet #WarSurvivors #poem #poetry

  17. #Resistance against imperialism & colonialism is in my blood. It goes back much further than the USA invasion on Vietnam. It goes back several generations on both my patriarch & matriarch ancestors sides. Several of my ancestors in China were murdered by imperialists for resisting indoctrination & trying to fight back. Several of my ancestors in Vietnam were murdered by French colonizers while fighting back & trying to protect their families & ancestral lands. Part of my ancestral duties is to keep on resisting the colonial/imperial evil forces. I owe at least that, to all my ancestors who sacrificed their lives so I could live & speak out, today.

    #AsianMastodon #WarSurvivors

  18. Big Auntie honoured her former fellow resistance fighters with a long & somber incense filled ceremony at her home today. We have never attended any colonial public remembrance day ceremonies - except when me & my brothers were forced to, in our public school times, which was mandatory for all students. We have spent some time during past remembrance days with some Canadian veterans here, who have dedicated the rest of their lives to fighting for peace. Despite them being called traitors by folks who enjoy war/violence more than working very hard towards peace. They are the real heroes from past war times - they understand wars should NEVER be glorified but avoided.

    #AsianMastodon #WarSurvivors #ResistanceFighters

  19. #ThrowbackThursday
    1996.
    In #DaLat - central highlands area of #Vietnam.
    With Mom & my 4th Auntie(one of Mom's younger sisters).
    When we visited the Van Hanh Zen Monastery. It's home to the giant golden Buddha statue - the largest one in Da Lat - it is 50 feet tall.

    #AsianMastodon #Teochew #VietnameseIndigenous #VietnamTrip #FamilyTrip #OverseasFamily #WarSurvivors #AsianDiaspora #FamilyMemories #FamilyPhotos #BornInSaigon #FamilyBonding #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #GenX

  20. A family that fled war in #Syria and settled in #Sooke seven years ago wants to build a ­#BowlingAlley and #restaurant in the ­community.

    Luis Almhanna said the ­proposal will see 12 to 16 ­bowling lanes with a bar and pizza place on the ground floor and a Mediterranean-style ­restaurant on a second floor.

    The family is expected to take their plans to Sooke ­council in September to rezone a ­single-family home property at 6727 West Coast Rd., close to the #OtterPoint Road intersection and Sooke’s core.

    Almhanna said the family is holding an #InformationSession for public input and feedback on what they would like to see in the project. It takes place on Sunday, between 10 a.m. and noon at 2365 Church Rd. That’s the site of the Almhannas’ other business, Homeyland Daycare.

    timescolonist.com/business/fam

    #Tsouke #Entrepreneurs #SmallBusiness #BusinessProposal #WarSurvivors #FormerWarRefugees #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PNW

  21. This video resonates with me & my family a lot. However, our family's experience as #Teochew #WarRefugees, leaving Saigon, was a lot more nightmarish & much more violent than this Mom's experience. One of my Aunties had joined the Vietcong as a medic & communications officer, after quitting her job as an ICU nurse & lived in tunnels for several years. We also had no family or friends who were already living in North America so trying to integrate into life here was more challenging.

    I can understand everything they say in Teochew. There's only a few words they say differently than we do - I'll do a video with my Mom soon to point out the differences. They speak a form of Teochew #diaspora in Vietnam, that most of us #Gaginang refer to as #Vietnam villagers Teochew. We speak the Teochew that #Saigon gaginang used since early #displacement from #China years back(a long, long time ago).

    youtu.be/GymTavOd2vU?si=4rtnL-

    #AsianMastodon #OurPeoples #AsianLanguages #Chinese #linguistics #DisctinctLanguage #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #SouthEastAsian #languages #POCvoices #WarSurvivors #DisplacementVoices #SurvivorsOfVietnamWar

  22. This video resonates with me & my family a lot. However, our family's experience as #Teochew #WarRefugees, leaving Saigon, was a lot more nightmarish & much more violent than this Mom's experience. One of my Aunties had joined the Vietcong as a medic & communications officer, after quitting her job as an ICU nurse & lived in tunnels for several years. We also had no family or friends who were already living in North America so trying to integrate into life here was more challenging.

    I can understand everything they say in Teochew. There's only a few words they say differently than we do - I'll do a video with my Mom soon to point out the differences. They speak a form of Teochew #diaspora in Vietnam, that most of us #Gaginang refer to as #Vietnam villagers Teochew. We speak the Teochew that #Saigon gaginang used since early #displacement from #China years back(a long, long time ago).

    youtu.be/GymTavOd2vU?si=4rtnL-

    #AsianMastodon #OurPeoples #AsianLanguages #Chinese #linguistics #DisctinctLanguage #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #SouthEastAsian #languages #POCvoices #WarSurvivors #DisplacementVoices #SurvivorsOfVietnamWar

  23. This video resonates with me & my family a lot. However, our family's experience as #Teochew #WarRefugees, leaving Saigon, was a lot more nightmarish & much more violent than this Mom's experience. One of my Aunties had joined the Vietcong as a medic & communications officer, after quitting her job as an ICU nurse & lived in tunnels for several years. We also had no family or friends who were already living in North America so trying to integrate into life here was more challenging.

    I can understand everything they say in Teochew. There's only a few words they say differently than we do - I'll do a video with my Mom soon to point out the differences. They speak a form of Teochew #diaspora in Vietnam, that most of us #Gaginang refer to as #Vietnam villagers Teochew. We speak the Teochew that #Saigon gaginang used since early #displacement from #China years back(a long, long time ago).

    youtu.be/GymTavOd2vU?si=4rtnL-

    #AsianMastodon #OurPeoples #AsianLanguages #Chinese #linguistics #DisctinctLanguage #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #SouthEastAsian #languages #POCvoices #WarSurvivors #DisplacementVoices #SurvivorsOfVietnamWar

  24. This video resonates with me & my family a lot. However, our family's experience as #Teochew #WarRefugees, leaving Saigon, was a lot more nightmarish & much more violent than this Mom's experience. One of my Aunties had joined the Vietcong as a medic & communications officer, after quitting her job as an ICU nurse & lived in tunnels for several years. We also had no family or friends who were already living in North America so trying to integrate into life here was more challenging.

    I can understand everything they say in Teochew. There's only a few words they say differently than we do - I'll do a video with my Mom soon to point out the differences. They speak a form of Teochew #diaspora in Vietnam, that most of us #Gaginang refer to as #Vietnam villagers Teochew. We speak the Teochew that #Saigon gaginang used since early #displacement from #China years back(a long, long time ago).

    youtu.be/GymTavOd2vU?si=4rtnL-

    #AsianMastodon #OurPeoples #AsianLanguages #Chinese #linguistics #DisctinctLanguage #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #SouthEastAsian #languages #POCvoices #WarSurvivors #DisplacementVoices #SurvivorsOfVietnamWar

  25. This video resonates with me & my family a lot. However, our family's experience as #Teochew #WarRefugees, leaving Saigon, was a lot more nightmarish & much more violent than this Mom's experience. One of my Aunties had joined the Vietcong as a medic & communications officer, after quitting her job as an ICU nurse & lived in tunnels for several years. We also had no family or friends who were already living in North America so trying to integrate into life here was more challenging.

    I can understand everything they say in Teochew. There's only a few words they say differently than we do - I'll do a video with my Mom soon to point out the differences. They speak a form of Teochew #diaspora in Vietnam, that most of us #Gaginang refer to as #Vietnam villagers Teochew. We speak the Teochew that #Saigon gaginang used since early #displacement from #China years back(a long, long time ago).

    youtu.be/GymTavOd2vU?si=4rtnL-

    #AsianMastodon #OurPeoples #AsianLanguages #Chinese #linguistics #DisctinctLanguage #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #SouthEastAsian #languages #POCvoices #WarSurvivors #DisplacementVoices #SurvivorsOfVietnamWar

  26. We finished our medical appointments.
    I got some x-rays done on my elbows after the denturist appointment too. Dentures adjustments were done on both lower & upper parts. They aren't rubbing & cutting into some parts of my mouth now. I'll be back at denturist, on as needed basis for next few weeks/months.
    Mom had quite a bit of blood taken today. She is quite lightheaded now so she's eating & taking a nap after.
    I changed my plans to hang out with a galpal to Wednesday. I have to go to Island Mediquip to get replacement key for my mobility scooter. I lost my keys for it, sometime last week. The shop isn't too far away so going to boot there & back home.
    It's super hot out. I want to relax in the shade with some ice cream 🍨

    #AsianMastodon #Teochew #MomAndDaughter #FamilySelfie #Gaginang #WarSurvivors #PeopleWithDisabilities

  27. Again, please see pinned posts with videos of #antimasker #police abusing our #HumanRights & #HealthSafety rights - in our own home. After refusing to leave for a strictly #covid #CardiacArrest 911 call. After being told to leave. After being told my Dad has #PTSD from abusive cops in past. After being told, this is a #WarSurvivors family & #cops aren't welcomed unless absolutely necessary & it wasn't necessary.

    #SaanichPolice #AbuseOfPower #SystematicRacism #VictoriaBC #YYJ #bigots #Saanich

  28. My #BoycottIsrael stickers - plastered on our mailbox & on front of our porch table ✌️🍉🇵🇸🍉🙏☮️💗

    We're a family of #USInvasion on #Vietnam #WarSurvivors in #solidarity with #Palestinians & all #oppressed peoples of the world. We've suffered similar #WarCrimes & atrocities & ecocidal crimes by foreign oppressors. Decades later, we're still fighting for justice & reparations. USA needs to be put on trial for many #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

    #StopGenocide #AntiWar #ProPeace #BDSmovement #StopApartheid

  29. #Quotes #War #PTSD #WarSurvivors

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    This book (All Quiet on the Western Front) is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. -Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (22 Jun 1898-1970)