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Jhone El'Mamuwaldi
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Born June 4, 1970 in the Southern region of Vietnam; near the city of Ho Chi Minh (formerly known as Saigon), under the original birth name of Cuōng Van Trán. The son to David El'Mamuwaldi (father) and Phuōng Van Trán (mother), spent his early years growing up in Vietnam till the age of 5 years; before the Vietcong overtook the south and forced the US military to evacuate its troops and family members. His father was with the US Army and his mother was a Vietnamese house wife. The first child to David and Phuong, before Jhake El'Mamuwaldi (brother-born 1973) and Jeanne Tran (sister-born 1985). As a young child, Jhone learned many different languages (Vietnamese, French, English, and Italian) and began to excel quickly as a young child. Both parents cared greatly for their son(s) with love and in a sensitive home environment.

Shortly before the fall of Saigon in 1975 (now present day Ho Chi Minh), his father was able to evacuate both sons to the US state of Hawaii before moving them to California. In California, Jhone and Jhake stayed with relatives close to their father. Unknown to Jhone, he and Jhake were now living with a family from a previous marriage; his father once had. Now in a new world with a new family, Jhone began to settle down with his new family, with a step mother and two older half siblings; brother and sister. Meanwhile back in Vietnam, Jhone's mother was unable to be evacuated or leave and was consequently imprisoned for being in a relationship and having children with the "enemy"; an American soldier. Much is not known about his mother's imprisonment, but what has been revealed to date, is his mother was eventually released from prison after a number of months and returned to her family in the neighboring city. The years went by for his mother, as she tried desperately to reach her sons, now thousands of miles away in the USA in an unknown location.

Jhone spent the next several years in Pasedena, California with his new adopted family, learning the American culture and language. It was not long before he had forgotten about his biological mother and quickly adopted his step-mother and half siblings as family. Jhone's father moved to Alaska to explore working in the "Last Frontier" in telecommunications. Jhone had very little memory of his father as the years went by, he only knew of his family in California and bonded to them and grew to love them unconditionally. He didn't realize it at the time but he had erased the years in Vietnam, almost has if it happened by defaulth. His young childhood developed like most normal kids but not really excelling in school and most often failing at written English. Although he was able to communicate verbal, he lacked the dicipline and desire to learn the basic English written structure and consequently did poorly in school when it came to writing. As a result of his lack of English skills, he was often sent to summer school in order to keep up with his grade class.

Now at the age of 12, with little notice the he and his brother were being sent to a new home locate in Wasilla, Alaska to live with their father after 7 years; and since last seeing his father in Vietnam in 1975.