My Tien Tran: Searching for Birth Family
I found this very touching story and want to post this, in the off-chance someone might read it and be able to help. My Tien Thi Tran will be returning to Vietnam in October to continue searching for birth relatives. If anyone can help, please email Jessica. She is My Tien Thi Tran’s daughter.
My Tien Tran as a child (2nd from left)
THIS IS MY STORY OF WHEN I WAS A BABY
By My Tien Thi Tran
THE YEAR WAS: 1957
WHERE: SAIGON GIA DINH, VIETNAM
NOW KNOWN AS HO CHI MINH CITY
There was a young couple with a small infant child. They were riding in a cyclo. When suddenly out of nowhere, came a big truck that hit the cyclo. All four were thrown to the hard ground. The cyclo driver and the woman were killed instantly. The man’s legs had been brutally cut by the force of the cyclo being crushed by the brute force of the truck.
The man cried out to the overlookers, “Please, will someone help my daughter?” A woman approached the accident. She was on her way to visit her child in school. She watched as the Blue Cross came and took the man to the hospital. The woman followed the Blue Cross to the hospital and watched as they tended to the man. The man did not seem to feel the pain of his gruesome wounds, but would tell the nurses “Please help my child.”
It was later known, that the child was taken to a Catholic orphanage. The woman that had overlooked that horrific accident, went home, and spent months pondering what had happened to that child. Five months later, the woman and her husband adopted the child and took the infant to her sister in a city far away called Quang Tri La Vang in the central highlands of Vietnam. The child was raised by the sister of the woman until she reached seven years of age, and then was returned to her adoptive parents.
I am that child!
My name is My Tien Thi Tran.
This is the name that was given to me by adoptive parents. I am desperately wishing to find my father or any relatives that I may have in Vietnam
If you’re not touched by this story, well, you’re made of stone!
What an incredible story of tragedy, love, loss, and hope.
Jessica is trying to bring as much attention and exposure to her mother’s story as possible, in hopes it might propagate far enough and wide enough to touch someone who can help her reunite with her birth family. If you’d like to help, either link to this post or publish it on your blog.
Drop a comment to let us know you’re supporting My Tien Thi Tran’s cause (so we can thank you and watch her story spread).
In Vietnamese:
?ây là câu truy?n khi tôi v?n còn là m?t cô bé,
b?i Tran Thi My Tien
Có m?t c?p v? ch?ng và m?t ??a tr? nh?. H? ?ang ? trên m?t chi?c xích lô, khi m?t chi?c xe t?i b?t ng? tông vào. C? b?n ng??i v?n xu?ng ???ng. Ng??i ph? n? và ng??i lái xe t?i ch?t t?c kh?c, trong khi ng??i ?àn ông b? ch?n th??ng n?ng chân do b? chi?c xích lô, chèn b?i chi?c xe t?i, cán ngang.
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27 September 2008, 1:02 pm
How very touching ; it’s heart wrenching , in fact. I can only begin to imagine the need, far beyond just a desire.
what a wonderful reunion that would be.
I’ll be following the story, thanks to you !
Thanks from my heart!
27 September 2008, 3:51 pm
As an adoptive Mama, I can really imagine the changes that had to take place in this little girl’s life. How hard it all had to be for her as a child! Now as an adult, it is not surprising that she wants to try and find her Birthmama. I hope she can and is not disappointed. More heartbreak is something she does not deserve.
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28 September 2008, 1:04 pm
That is so sad, I cannot even imagine what it must be like to have something so huge missing from your life. I hope she finds her family.
28 September 2008, 6:31 pm
Oh, I hope she an find a relative, what a wonderful reunion that will be.
I’ll post a link to this story on my site today!
28 September 2008, 9:51 pm
Wow that is an amazing story. No ties to Vietnam here…but I hope she finds what she’s looking for…
29 September 2008, 3:51 am
Hi Can Can:
Thank you for posting my mom’s search for her birth family on your site.
Have a great day!
29 September 2008, 4:15 am
I hope that she finds her father or her birth relatives.
20 December 2008, 1:56 pm
It’s hard to tracking back something happened more than 50 years ago. Her father if survived after amputation and was healthy now is more than 70 years old, so if MyTien knows the man’s name she may search for him. As other relatives I don’t think it’s important, she think she missed them because she never had them. But if she were living closed to them for all these years, she may be tired or hate them. I suggest she just adopt orphans or poor people as her relatives if she really want to giving out her feeling.