Đặng Thùy Trâm
Đặng Thùy Trâm (d. Đức Phổ, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, June 22, 1970) was a Vietnamese military doctor who assisted with the war effort on the side of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She was killed, at the age of 27, by United States forces while defending her hospital in the Quang Ngai Province of south-central Vietnam.
Following her death, two of her diaries were taken by Fred Whitehurst, then a 22-year-old U.S. intelligence officer, who kept it for 35 years. In July 2005 the diary was published in Vietnamese, selling more than 300,000 copies and drawing comparisons between Dang's writing and that of Anne Frank.[1][2] In August 2005 Whitehurst traveled to Vietnam to meet Dang's family and in early October of the same year the family traveled to Lubbock, Texas to view the diaries, which are archived at Texas Tech University.
External links
- Full text of The Diary of Dr. Dang Thuy Tram from The Vietnam Center site at Texas Tech University (original Vietnamese text and English translation)
- "Tram Diaries: Soldiers Preserve Writings of Vietnam War"
- "War's cruel poetry moves search by 2 N.C. veterans" Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina), October 6, 2005
- "Vietcong Doctor's Diary of War, Sacrifice"
- "Mother Reads Daughter's Vietnam Diaries... 35 Years Later" (October 6, 2005)
- "The real stuff: what a Vietnamese army doctor saw" (September 22, 2005)
- "A daughter returns home — through her diaries" (October 12, 2005)
- "Best-selling diary transformed into television show" (August 15, 2005)
- "Copyright and the translation of The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram"
- "Diarist's mother visits US, holds daughter's manuscript" (October 7, 2005)
Video
- Dang Thuy Tram video from Texas Tech University