Vĩnh receives her second Associate of Arts degree from Monterey Peninsula College in May 2005, at age 83. This indomitable woman who was struck with polio while a child, and who volunteered to replace her father in the war of resistance against the French (1946-1953), came to the USA as a refugee, and commutes to school by public transportation, is a great-grandmother who now resides in Seaside, Monterey County, California.