Talk about some refugees the media would despise and want to stop.
Most people don’t remember that with all the media love of immigrants and refugees, in the 1970s we suddenly saw the media turn cold, when those refugees were South Vietnamese fleeing communism.
I remember that all too well.
“We will bear any burden, go any mile.......”
Sooo, yours truly stood in the middle of a refugee camp, as a lowly enlisted man, and was tasked to “administer” all those “boat people.”
And as they came ashore, with bitterness in their hearts, they asked me: “Bear any burden? Go any Mile?”
I was just an enlisted man, put in a place where I had to be the first American that those refugees encountered.
I’ll skip the rest. Its been a long day, and my heart is weary and will never be made right.