Nguyen Van Le

**Nguyen Van Le** is the father of Nguyen Thi Hanh and Nguyen Linh. He is a Vietnamese immigrant and runs a diner in Arlington, TX.

## History

### Vietnam

On July 14, 1966, Van Le's daugther Thi Hanh was born in Saigon. His wife Thi Binh died during childbirth.

During the Vietnam warW, Nguyen served as NCO interpreter in the 18th division of the Army of the Republic of VietnamW.

In April 1972, his daughter was brought to the United States as part of the Operation BabyliftW.

She was later adopted by Ed and Karen Baldwin and received her new name, Kelly Ann Baldwin.

### US immigration

According to the US Department of Defence, Van Le immigrated to the United States in 1978.
There, he remarried and had another daughter, Nguyen Linh.

In 1983, Nguyen lives in Arlington, TX, where he runs a diner called "Little Saigon", serving Vietnamese, Chinese and French cuisine. His daughter Linh works as a waitress in his restaurant.

## Gallery

"Little Saigon" diner in ArlingtonInside the restaurantNguyen Van Le at workVan Le with his former wife Thi BinhNguyen Thi Hanh's birth certificate
## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 There is lots of discrepancy in the story concerning Kelly's Vietnamese relatives and her background in general, such as:

	* In the d-mail Kelly received from DoD in episode 2x07 it is stated that her father immigrated to the United States in 1978. The girl who served Kelly in her father's restaurant in 2x08, Kelly's half-sister Linh, said she was born in the US after her father came here. That would make her only 4-5 years old by 1983, the time season 2 plays in.

	* Kelly was born in 1966 and is 17 by 1983. Linh looks younger, but not too much. The Vietnam War ended in 1970 in the show's timeline. There was a paper with a 1970 date in the dossier Kelly received, however written in Vietnamese. If 1970 would be her father's immigration year, that could make Linh about 13 years old and would make more sense.

	* Shane Baldwin died in December 1974, after which Ed and Karen have been living seperated for a while. Then they saw a report on TV about "Operation Babylift" and all the Vietnamese children brought to the US, as told in episode 2x06. This would imply that "Operation Babylift" happened in 1975, same as it did reality (although the war was over for 5 years at that time). However, at the end of episode 2x10, it is told that Kelly came to the US as part of Babylift on April 3, 1972, and was one of the survivors of the plane crashW that happened at the beginning of this operation.

	* Operation Babylift, the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to western countries, happened in 1975 in the real world. It appears that it happened almost in the exact same way in *For All Mankind* as well, including the plane crash with the same plane, on the same date, only 3 years earlier, which seems somehow implausible.

* Kelly was apparently already 9 years old when she was adopted by the Baldwins.

## See also

* Nguyen Linh
* Kelly Baldwin

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 7: "Don't Be Cruel" (Kelly's birth certificate @ 47:45)
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 10: "The Grey"
3. ↑ Season 2, Episode 7: "Don't Be Cruel" (D-mail answer from DoD @ 57:01 → Screenshot)
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 8: "And Here's to You"