Du, Nguyen

Michael Counsell is a priest of the Church of England (Anglican/Episcopal), and was in charge of a church in Singapore in 1968 when he was asked to become British Embassy Chaplain in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, with responsibility for caring for English-speaking people in the whole of Vietnam and Cambodia . Nervously he accepted the appointment, and with his wife and first child lived there for almost four years. He made many friends among the Vietnamese and expatriate populations, and started to learn the Vietnamese language - he had already started on Chinese in Singapore. His friends to...