{"id":227,"date":"2024-06-23T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:09:51","slug":"tho-remembering-my-great-uncle-ong-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/23\/tho-remembering-my-great-uncle-ong-chin\/","title":{"rendered":"Th\u01a1 | Remembering My Great Uncle \u00d4ng Ch\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-superbfont-medium-font-size wp-elements-5f8aa8f417b152eb0611e26d77a7acfd\">Patrick and Victoria Nguy\u1ec5n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;width:396px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111-768x576.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228\" style=\"width:396px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CauChinNAML111-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-superbfont-large-font-size wp-elements-5084a401aa21b2f34de111a3ec5449c5\"><strong>My Great Uncle Ong Chin<\/strong><br>I see tears of others on the floor,<br>I hear people moaning on the streets,<br>I feel their pain like a needle,<br>I taste my salty tears.<br>I smell the leaves of newly grown sapling,<br>I miss my uncle\u2026<br>Tears run down my cheeks, as I think about my uncle Ong Chin\u2026<br>I see him in the stars up above,<br>As I look at the sun, I feel warm rays of his love.<br>When it rains I see his face,<br>When it\u2019s cloudy, I see him smile.<br>When it\u2019s snowing I feel his hands wrapped around me when I sleep\u2026<br>When it\u2019s windy he looks down at me.<br>He\u2019s my great uncle\u2026 Ong Chin.<br><br><strong>Victoria P. Nguyen<br><\/strong><em>Great Niece<\/em><br>Dalton, MA  September 03, 2003<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PatrickVicki1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/400;width:260px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PatrickVicki1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PatrickVicki1-225x300.jpg 225w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PatrickVicki1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229\" style=\"width:260px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PatrickVicki1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PatrickVicki1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-superbfont-large-font-size wp-elements-f154b8a7659baf2d8a14758507da2d55\"><strong>Remembering My Great Uncle Ninth<\/strong><br><br>I am a person who follows my Great Uncle Ninth (Bishop), who helps others<br>I wonder what lies ahead for my future, as well as others\u2019<br>I hear the quiet drips of rain on the windowsill.<br>I see a dying star, striving to glow<br>I want to follow him to create something that will benefit all mankind<br>I am a person who follows my Great Uncle Ninth (Bishop), who helps others<br>I pretend to go beyond what is known to people in outer space<br>I feel the warm rays of the sun beating on me as I run across a field<br>I touch the cold, dusty snow in the highest mountains of the world<br>I worry about what might happen to people because of hatred between them<br>I cry for the lost souls in wars because of hatred<br>I am a person who follows my Great Uncle Ninth (Bishop), who helps others<br>I understand the universe of God\u2019s creation<br>I believe everything has a place where it belongs<br>I dream about past events that could have been better<br>I try to make people happy when I can, like my Great Uncle Ninth (Bishop)<br>I hope for a time when everything could just be calm<br>I am sure that he\u2019s in Heaven now and looking down at us<br>I am a person who follows my Great Uncle Ninth (Bishop), who helps others<br><br><strong>Patrick D. Nguyen<\/strong><br><em>Great Nephew<\/em><br>Dalton, MA  September 03, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick and Victoria Nguy\u1ec5n My Great Uncle Ong ChinI see tears of others on the floor,I hear people moaning on the streets,I feel their pain like a needle,I taste my salty tears.I smell the leaves of newly grown sapling,I miss my uncle\u2026Tears run down my cheeks, as I think about my uncle Ong Chin\u2026I see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducchanho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}