Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190107:05:21:00
Because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldn't set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i don't know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience. at the same time i come back to hue, my hometown, my family's hometown, and i'm glad people are alive, people are living, things are happening, things are changing. we need to let the country open up and let the peopl...