It was 50 years ago this summer that hundreds of Vietnamese refugees escaping communism began flocking into Pensacola to build new lives. Most spoke little to no English, but in that half-century they ...
From 1975: The last Vietnamese refugee family left Camp Murray in Tacoma, after the camp had relocated 1,310 refugees in towns and cities across the state, including many in Spokane. Camp Murray was ...
In 1989, Kristine Nguyen had freshly immigrated to San Francisco after living in a refugee camp in Thailand. “I came here with my little brother from escaping from Vietnam by boat,” Kristine said, ...
As a terrified 10-year-old girl, Thu Tam Hoang fled Saigon with her family as the South Vietnamese capital was overrun in April 1975, the deafening sound of bombs and gunfire ringing in her ears as ...