Contributed by Eugene Tulich (gene42@flash.net) 1/13/02:

I feel that my 'forgotten dream' has come true this year when I heard from you and Captain Logan! I am pleased and proud to have my name to be added to the Crew list at the end of the Morgenthau history. Thinking of what the Morgenthau Crew has achieved, I am strongly sure that I have done a good turn for my country and to my people on islands where the MEDCAPS have operated - their minds are still being remembered with the image of the US white ship arriving, many of them receiving treatment and they are now still alive! Now they dare to say to others that they wish that the ship coming back!

I arrived Australia in Oct. 1984 after a total of 8 years in a communist jail (the so-called 're-education' camp). I managed to escape from an 'open jail' in a jungle for the first time in 1979, taking a fishing boat to flee but I was captured by the communist navy, and was sent back to jail. I was finally freed in 1982 because the authorities received a large amount of bribery money (my wife has been supported by my brother in law who has been granted a scholarship/studying in Canada since 1962).

My young sister was the first one in my family escaped from Vietnam by boat successfully; she arrived Australia in 1981 while I was in jail. I was trying to escape from Vietnam by boat in 1983-1984, a total of 4 times; I finally arrived in Malaysia in 1984, staying in a refugee camp for 6 months. These are the days I have time to recall the time I was iron cuffed for months in 1975 because I was unable to answer the question: what is your mission now? By which way you keep contact with American?

Some of the photographs and military documents, has been hidden by my wife for years and I must admit she is courageous! One year later (1985), my wife arrived Australia under the unification program. I got a job in a factory during the first 2 years in Australia. From 1986 - 1999 I was a public servant, working for the Commonwealth Dept. of Employment, Education and Training, receiving the voluntary redundancy offers and now I am working as a serviceman for a private Healthcare Ltd. Pty., the headquarters is in the UK. I have 2 daughters (14 and 16 years old).

Nguyen Duc Cong, Ensign, VNN