Nguyen Khang

Biography

During the Fall of Saigon when Communist North Vietnam were attacking South Vietnam, his family were anti-communist and were worried that they would be prosecuted by the Communist government if it succeded in defeating the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).

His father had worked for the United States Information Agency (USIA), and had made arrangements for his family to leave South Vietnam. Khang along with his parents and siblings went to the airport, to be evacuated.

During the confusion at the airport, only Khang and his father were able to leave, Saigon, but they vowed to never give up on their family.

Once in the United States, his father and him continued to fight using all their political contacts to pressure for the release of his family from Communist Vietnam. Eventually in 1981, Khang's parents and nine siblings were reunited in the United States.

He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland and worked for the Defense Information Systems Agency at the Pentagon for over 13 years.

In March 2001, he then worked as a systems administrator for a United States Navy contractor, and resided in Fairfax, Virginia.

On September 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, he was killed at the age of 41 years old.

He was survived by his wife, Tu Nguyen, and a four-year-old son.

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