Rancho: A Photo Essay

These photos were taken by Thao Uyen Vo, May 31, 1991

Dr. Donna M. Barras, an orthopedist, got polio when she was six years old. 

 

Tam U. Vo, reciting the poem "Hello Friends" by her Dad, blessed to be a graduate of Stanford, Class of 2006

 

 

A memento conceived by LV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sculpted by Nguyen Thanh Thu, conceived and assisted by Linh Vo, with love and gratitude (started Christmas 1990, finished May 1991)  

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Diane C. Mitchell, Chief of Spina Bifida Clinic, gave her all in support of this surprise gift to Rancho Hospital

 

 

Trung Duy Vo holding hands with his Daddy Linh, walking with Director John H. Taylor to the door of the Nixon Library. 

Photo by 1973 Pulitzer-prize-winning Nick Ut.

 

Trung Vo and his Dad's poem "Patriotism" under the flag pole at Ward Elementary School

 

 

 

 

1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pupils and the ceremony, singing and dancing the patriotic songs

 

 

 

 

My last wish of my life in America is to have the much-weathered cement sculpture recast in bronze in order to last for the patients to appreciate, so that they may be inspired to get well. "If Dr. Barras has made it, so can they." -- Linh D. Vo, July 4, 2009

 

 

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