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12/27/14 @ Flushing Library- Meet the Author and Featured Veterans

12/19/2014

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Celebrate with us after your Christmas festivities on December 27, 2pm at Flushing Library.

Great anecdotes from William Chan (U.S. Army), Tony Lee (U.S. Air Force) and Fang A. Wong (U.S. Army) 

Admission: FREE

ABOUT THE VETERANS

Fang A. Wong 黃宏達 was the first Asian American National Commander of the American Legion, the largest veteran’s organization in the United States. He served with a military intelligence unit for the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and retired from the U.S. Army in 1989 with the rank of chief warrant officer. 

William Chan 陳永強 is a photographer with a degree from
the Fashion Institute of Technology and is currently a MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts. He is an Iraq War veteran and was in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1999 to 2011. 

Tony Lee is a Chapter Service Officer of Disabled American Veterans at Herald Square Chapter 126 in New York City. He trained for the Army Reserves as a medic and was activated for Desert Shield/Desert Storm in the Air Force. He served in the Reserves for 17 years. He has an MBA and just completed a second master’s degree to become a licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York State.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Victoria Moy was born and raised in New York’s Chinatown and currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is pursuing a MFA in Playwriting/Screenwriting/TV writing at the University of Southern California. She has written for Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, New York Press and other publications. She is a graduate of Yung Wing Public School 124, The Dalton School, and Dartmouth College.
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    Victoria Moy, author of Fighting for the Dream: Voices of Chinese American Veterans from World War II to Afghanistan spent 7 years collecting the oral histories and putting together this book. She was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles. She graduated with a MFA in Playwriting/ Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. For more info, see: VictoriaMoy.net

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