The scorching sun beat down on the streets of Saigon as Tim Nguyen and his nine siblings ran errands for the family business. It was the 1960’s and Tim’s dad, Phat van Nguyen, owned a small Vietnamese general store that sold the essentials—rice and Coca-Cola.
Tim has pleasant memories of his childhood, attending school six mornings a week, playing with his brothers and sisters, and collecting customers’ empty Coke bottles at week’s end.
