Posted on 09/30/2015 1:17:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Late in the evening of March 17, 1981, a rickety Vietnamese river boat embarked on an ocean journey to Thailand, carrying 27 people in a desperate attempt to find a new life.
A day and a half at sea, they were picked up by a Thai fishing boat, which they saw as salvation. Instead, the new vessel brought them a plague of robbery, kidnapping and starvation.
When they were set back aboard their own disabled craft several days later, only 25 Vietnamese remained. Two infants -- a boy of five months, a girl of 11 months -- were kept by the fishermen.
Against the odds 31 years later, Viet Van Ngo, the father of one of those infants, found his now-grown son, Dam, who was raised in a Thai family without knowing he was Vietnamese.
It's an extraordinary story that turns on the persistence of a father, a doughty battle by the media and a curious bend, or crimp, of the left ear.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
I don’t agree at all with the comparison of Vietnamese to the present situation in Syria.
These were people who were allies of the USA - family people who shared an ideology of freedom, and often Christianity, with Americans, and only fled their country when they were abandoned by the US Government (particularly the Democrat Party). They also did not expect handouts when they arrived to the USA. They had no backward values or extreme religious beliefs they wanted to impose on the USA when they arrived.
Our church took in Vietnamese people, my parents hired them to do work on our house. GREAT people. Can’t sy the same about muslim invaders today.
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