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My mother went out to the mass graves when they were discovered and she saw the bodies in there, and she was like, i can't go there and look for him. >> anthony: a lot of people died here. >> nguyen qui duc: you can't help thinking about these people, who died when they're young, who died for no reason, who just got caught in the fire fights. we have the day of the dead here, the day of the wandering souls, and we honor those who are not buried within their home village and not taken care of, their spirits not taken care of. there are families here who don't have a death date, which is huge. a...

My mother went out to the mass graves when they were discovered and she saw the bodies in there, and she was like, i can't go there and look for him. >> anthony: a lot of people died here. >> nguyen qui duc: you can't help thinking about these people, who died when they're young, who died for no reason, who just got caught in the fire fights. we have the day of the dead here, the day of the wandering souls, and we honor those who are not buried within their home village and not taken care of, their spirits not taken care of. there are families here who don't have a death date, which is huge. a...

Taken to, and we had no idea whether he was alive or not. my mother went out to the mass graves when they were discovered and she saw the bodies in there, and she was like, i can't go there and look for him. >> anthony: a lot of people died here. >> nguyen qui duc: you can't help thinking about these people, who died when they're young, who died for no reason, who just got caught in the fire fights. we have the day of the dead here, the day of the wandering souls, and we honor those who are not buried within their home village and not taken care of, their spirits not taken care of. there are f...

Shock. so we stayed for a week, in the basement. when the american soldiers came, by that time they had marched my father away, the north vietnamese soldiers. we didn't know where he was taken to, and we had no idea whether he was alive or not. my mother went out to the mass graves when they were discovered and she saw the bodies in there, and she was like, i can't go there and look for him. >> anthony: a lot of people died here. >> nguyen qui duc: you can't help thinking about these people, who died when they're young, who died for no reason, who just got caught in the fire fights. we have th...

Care of. there are families here who don't have a death date which is huge, a death anniversary in the vietnamese is when you do the ceremonies, you pay attention to the dead. you can't do that if you don't know when they really died. you just assume those people are just never liberated spiritually, that they are stuck in that space. it was like that for my father because he was in prison, we had no news from him. you couldn't set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15 of your friends are going out and doing things, you just had that weight on you that your father is somewh...