A Message to the Scholarship Recipients

The Academic Excellence Recognition program is one of the bi-products of the continuous effort from our forefathers. This is also the intent of the VCSA-DFW Chapter, to use education as the foundation to promote the Vietnamese culture. Education and culture tightly support each other, but these two tasks are full of challenges and obstacles that we continuously ask for your encouragement, support, and helping hands.

Both scholars also shared the same 2nd principle of “Restoring People’s Integrity”. This idea means to reorganize and strengthen the people’s courage to put the country’s interest in front of personal gain in hope to recapture the people’s momentum after 10 long centuries under the sacrifices and hardships of foreigner’s colonization.

Because of this aspiration, Vietnam has finally regained independence.

As a result of these movements, our ancestors fought and regained what belonged to us. Now, our tasks are to continue retaining, building, and promoting our heritage, or simply states -- “the Vietnamese Nationalism”. The national pride is the key factor that keeps us moving forward and surpasses all the hardships along the road. Without it, we will be melted into everyone else, who could not maintain their identities.

Today, you are our pride. However, this is not enough. Besides seeking for personal and family’s pride, you should strive to offer what you have learned and what you have obtained for the betterment of your community, your society, your nation, and furthermost, humanity. But if you carry the Vietnamese Nationalism along with you, you will always be Vietnam’s pride.

In the unique situation where the Vietnamese people are scattered all over the world, there is a great need for your talents and volunteerism regardless of where we live. Volunteerism will certainly cost you personal times and effort. However, a fraction of your leisure time in exchange for achieving our national dream is something worth doing.