{"id":5378,"date":"2005-05-26T20:42:25","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T00:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:31","slug":"a-sense-of-duty-my-father-my-american-journey-by-quang-x-pham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-sense-of-duty-my-father-my-american-journey-by-quang-x-pham\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey by Quang X. Pham [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/05\/Sense-of-Duty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30885\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/05\/Sense-of-Duty-e1434034858386.jpg\" alt=\"Sense of Duty\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>A loving tribute, memoir-style, to the author\u2019s father, a South Vietnamese pilot shot down during the Vietnam War and assumed dead. Pham and his mother begin a new life in the United States, where Pham eventually becomes a U.S. Marine pilot and comes to terms with the seemingly contradictory nature of true loyalty and duty to family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-05-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, May 26, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5379\" title=\"Sense of Duty\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/sense-of-duty.jpg\" alt=\"Sense of Duty\" width=\"128\" height=\"192\" \/>A loving tribute, memoir-style, to the author\u2019s father, a South Vietnamese pilot shot down during the Vietnam War and assumed dead. Pham and his mother begin a new life in the United States, where Pham eventually becomes a U.S. Marine pilot and comes to terms with the seemingly contradictory nature of true loyalty and duty to family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-05-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, May 26, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,107,20,6535,137,140],"tags":[3598,6608,58,189,25,39,3797,3798,45],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-southeast-asian-american","category-vietnamese-american","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-immigration","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-quang-x-pham","tag-sense-of-duty","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey by Quang X. 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