Twenty years later, Hayslip escaped Vietnam and came to the United States with her two small sons, speaking no English and with little education. In the following years, Hayslip would endure torture at the hands of South Vietnamese Republican troops, rape by the Viet Cong, near starvation, and the deaths of her father and brother. When she was 12, the first troops landed in Ky La and fighting began in and around her town. Hayslip grew up the youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family in Ky La, a tiny village in Central Vietnam. Le Ly Hayslip, who lives in California, will speak in Edwards Auditorium on URI’s Kingston Campus on Oct. Her talk “Vietnamese Women: Voices Unheard” is the fifth annual Eleanor M. As part of the University of Rhode Island’s fall honors colloquium series, “Legacies of the Vietnam War,” Hayslip will speak of the war as viewed from Vietnamese eyes. She watched the war demolish her family, her home, and her country. Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese woman who grew up during the horrors of the Vietnam War, knows this from first hand experience. SeptemIt has been said that during war, heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. Le Ly Hayslip to offer different perspective on Vietnam War KINGSTON, R.I.
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