By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent
The pain of an unidentified man who said he was a marine played out on a Sacramento street recently when he began screaming out of control at an elderly Southeast Asian American couple.
Van Zhon said her father, who is in his mid-70’s, was wearing a short-sleeved camouflage cotton t-shirt when another man exploded in rage.
“My friends died.” and you’re going to wear this,” the man could be heard on a video posted on Facebook. “No, no , you can’t do that.”
“Ok, Ok,” said Zhon’s mother who had heard the commotion and ran across the street to intervene.
“Ok, ok, she repeated hoping to calm the man.
“No, It’s not OK, OK.”
“I’m sorry,” she said.
“I’m a Marine. OK, and this mother f*ckers going to wear that sh*t? no no. F*ck you, f*ck you.”
Zhon says her father knows little English and did not understand what was going on.
“That angered the man more and he grabbed my father by his collar pulling his key necklace he had on and fist closed threatening he’s going to kill him and how dare he wear that when his friends died in war yelling at him he should go back to his country he’s not welcomed here and accused him of being a Vietnamese communists,” she wrote on Facebook. “My father is far from a communist, he served in the Vietnam War for Laos on the US side.”
Zhon encouraged those who saw her video to share it. It’s been viewed more then 230,000 times and shared 3,000 times.
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RE: Marine vents his rage at elderly couple: Louis Chan, are you out of your mind? The “pain of an unidentified man” ?!?!? What about the “pain” and the fear the old guy must’ve been feeling when this nutjob approached him. I wish this “unidentified man” with “pain” would’ve come up to me with that BS cuz he would’ve seriously felt the “pain” I’d inflict on him. The reason why he would even go full blown psycho on the old Asian is because of people like you always pandering and trying to appease other races even when they’re in the wrong.
RE: Marine vents his rage at elderly couple: Her compassion and attempt to calm down this ptsd man was the right and smart thing to do. Violence only begets more violence. The real problem is how our government insists on war as a way to satisfy greed and resource taking, using our men as fodder for their canons, and then not giving the needed medical and psychological treatment the returning fodder needs. T Chang, calm down. Compassion worked here. No one got hurt.
Marine Vents his rage at elderly couple:Uhhhh, hellooo??? No one got hurt? PTSD? Treatment and Compassion? Once again, another self-abnegating, self-loathing poor excuse of an “Asian” American. The psychological harm the old guy suffered from this “PTSD” is unassessable. The fear of being physically attacked by a much younger, probably also much bigger man will have long lasting repercussions on his mental state. Probably taking years off of his life having to deal with this at his advanced age and you’re declaring that the right thing was done? BTW, ur assumption that this “Marine” was damaged goods was proven to be false. Bottom line was that this Scumbag just felt like picking on some old Asian guy was all it was…