>> In all seriousness, this is an amazing story, and really could be made into a movie <<
Yes, and the movie might go on to show how the children of the Vietnamese refugees often become pharmacists, and then the grand-children go to medical school and become MD’s.
One of my nephew's best friends is the son of parents who escaped from Vietnam and were relocated to North Dakota. He's now a doctor.
I met the kid back in the winter of 2003 on a ski trip my nephew invited me on. You know how people are stereotyped, well when I asked Vu where he was from, he said North Dakota. I asked him if he ever pheasant hunted out there (thinking of course Vietnamese people don't hunt) and he laughed and said that's all he did in the fall while growing up and would return there whenever his schooling allowed it.
As a side note, one of my best friend's girlfriend of 18 years is a Vietnamese refugee and her son went to college and is now a producer for The Discovery Channel.........