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The Vietnam War: A Short Story

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When I was young, my father used to tell me stories of how he fled from Laos with his family during the Vietnam war. Thanks to my father and all his hard work, I had a fairly good childhood growing up. I grew up always having food on the table and having a warm place to sleep however I was also being pushed to be something that I wasn’t. My dad had left a path for me that I wasn’t sure I could follow or even wanted to follow but because of my family I had a constant pressure to follow that path and be successful in the same career field. At first I tried but I couldn’t match up with the bar he had already set. I had no passion for the field of technology at all and because of this my grades started to fall and I had no drive to succeed. It
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