i could feed the people in my tent. i was a hero.

harry, are you okay? yeah... i'm okay. i just thought i had put all of this out of my mind-- put thai kieu out of my mind. you feel guilty, huh? whenever i think about him. harry, he made a choice. but if it wasn't for me... you know what happened when the cong came. what kind of life would he have had? at least he'd have been alive to live it, okay? i'm sorry. i didn't even ask about you. how's your trip? great trip. there's no snow, just rain.

and my best friend's getting divorced. other than that, it's been a blast. jude? yeah? thanks for calling. ( knocking ) come in. can we talk? oor. it's about harry. what about him? he's pretty freaked out about this thing. yeah, i know. what will you do? what do you think i should do? i think you should show him a little support.

you're right. he lied to all of us. you know what i mean. i think there's more. meaning? meanang... i don't know. there's something else going on here. i don't know. something went on over there. bingo. a war went on over there. harry was not the enemy. oh, no? i figure you were about four years old er there. i know that we fought the vietcong and the north vietnamese. we fought everybody! the only people on our side were us. that's bull. let me tell you something. everybody's got a story about the war. mine's aboutut buddy that lived through two tours-- twenty-two months.

we were coming out of a cafe one day in saigon. this was towards the end of the war. reggie goes across the street to get the jeep while i go to get cigarettes. the next thing i hear is the jeep exploding. a 14-year-old kid is running away. he'd rolled a grenade under the jeep. i couldn't find him. that has nothing to do with h.t. ioki ho he is now. i don't care if he changed his name. i don't care if he lied to the world. he did it for a good reason. do you know how many vietnamese native officers we have in this department?

you won't see these folks at the post office. they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. and never go to the post office again. i was sponsored out

i lived with a woman named bessie mason. mrs. mason had a big, old house. all her children were grown and had children of their own. at first i called her mrs. mason how are you ever going to learn english watching policemen shoot at eacacother? i like this... program. program. you'll like this one better. ( sesame strtrt: ) hi, bert. hi, ernie. isn't thisisa nice lett? it's nice. it's big and round... i must have been the only 14-year-old

. louis. i went to high school therer and did pretty good once i learned english. 10 q. i couldn't hear you, bert. 10 q, 10 q, 10 q! you're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome, bert! i started thinking about my future. right then and there i knew what i wanted to do for a living. after graduation, i came here. which you know all about. i didn't think a vietnamese refugee would have a very good chance of getting into the depapament. anyway, i was accepted as h.t. ioki and went through the academy. ? i want to be an airborne ranger ? ? i want to be an airborne ranger ? ? i want to live a life of danger ?

thai! ( gasps and wakens ) i finished in the top 5% of my class. to the jump street program under captain jenko. thank you, officer. what officer ioki has s ft out of the story is the next four years of exemplary work

cover program. moral issues of the war in vietnam aside-- the people of vinh van tran's country have suffered plenty. yes, he lied-- on his application. but let's face the truth, gentlemen. this police department has two discrimination suits pending right at this moment. we don't have an exemplary record in that area. h.t. ioki had no real criminal intent-- fundamental in how we determine what is a crime.

i'd like to call captain adam fuller. captain... do you have a statement you wish to make? yes, i do. and then suffers the full force of government coming down on him it's a pretty terrifying thing. i understand what he's going through and have sympathy for him.

i implore you to allow him to stay ininhis department. do you recognize this, harry? yeah. this is one of my name change applications. where did you find it? no kidding. apparently, he f fed it away before he died. so what does this mean? one more piece of evidence for the review board. this might pull l ur head off the chopping block. really? it demonstrates your willingness to correct the original application. i'll submit it now-- decision's not till tomorrow. that's great!

well, guys, happy ho-ho-o-. iokage! thanks, guys. congratulations, harry. ththks, captain. you guys want to give us a minute here? sure. look, harry, i just wanted to tell you i would have done exactly the same thing you did if the circumstances were reversed. i wawasomewhere i didn't want to be and i had no control over it. i was forced to go somewhere i didn't want to go. i guess i had no control over it either. at least i had somewhere totoo back to.

don't you have some work to do? relax, captain-- it's christmas! kids are out of school. whatever crimes they're committing they're committing in florida. yes, yes, yes! yeah-- come in. got a minute, coach? sure. i'm not one to be cynical, but... a christmas miracle? well, yeah... these things happen...

winds up in jenko's old file cabinet? why not? because jenknknever filed a thing in his life.

yes, ma'am. oh, you're the... maintenance engineer. sorry. sal's licensed to work at a nuclear power plant. uh, yeah. just waiting for an opening. ( children giggling ) ( dishes crashing ) amy: i'll get it this time.

i went through three sets of dishes before we went plastic. my kids can shatter plastic. hanson: all right, that's enough. knock it off! very effective. quite a little circus you've got there, sal. they love getting out of the house. so do i.

i just think it's great that we're all here together to share the holidays and i'd like to make a toast-- to the family. to all of us-- however we gototere. penhall: to thai kieu who never did get here. to reggie peterson of roanoke, virginia. and to everyone else we left over there. [captioning sponsored by fx networks