Summary
JOURNEY TO AMERICA THE HMONG REFUGEES
Toward the land of the freeSee the full content of this document
Extract
Toward the Land of the Free
Coming wave of Hmong refugees may be the last
By NAHAL TOOSI ntoosi@journalsentinel.com, Journal SentinelSunday, July 4, 2004As a young boy in Laos, Neng Yang hungered for a better life.His father, one of thousands of Hmong soldiers who fought against Communist forces in the CIA-sponsored secret war in Laos, died when Yang was a baby. Destitute and desperate, the boy ate whatever he could, even spiders in the dirt."We had no food, no clothes, no medicines, no leaders," Yang recalls, his eyes swelling with tears.In 1987, Yang, then 15, and his mother walked for day...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
