I have always been impressed with how hard working and entrepernerial many Viet Namese-Americans are. We need more like them. How ironic, when one recalls we were at war with North Vietmam for years.
I used to work at a high school with large Southeast Asian student population. I think that they are going to be the salvation of our country.
I worked with many Vietnamese Americans. There is a quite large community over here. All of them are refugees from South Vietnam. Many of them worked for South Vietnamese government, fighting on our side (or rather we were helping them). Some ran away from the communist before the takeover, but most survived communist gulags. They have stories to tell.
BTW we were supporting the good guys in Vietnam!
Some of them told me, when the war ended, they were exhausted, and they hoped that at least there would be a peace. No, the fighting was replaced by starvation and reeducation concentration camps. The real disaster in South Vietnam happened after the war!