Vietnamese arrive on Guam, May 1975, as a part of Operation New Life after the fall of Saigon. Source: www.guampedia.com
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6 comments:
I wonder how many of those people in that photo ended up owning cigarette shops/nail salons.
My memory of this was our grandma in Guam helped when they arived. She came home and said that some of the women didn't even have cloths. All us boys offered to help. I got myself in trouble with some poorly timed remarks.
Remember this well! Kind of felt sorry for them myself. Now they all own restaurants, dry cleaning stores and nail salons.
I was in the GW band and we went to some of the camps to play. People were wanting to know if we had money to trade with them. The rumor was they had gold bars to sell.It was hard to explain that as high school kids we had no money
My mother kept for years some boards that they had painted on in the camp. There was another large group of Afgan refugees kept on Anderson South Itink in the 80's. Paul's wife is from Vietnam.
When I lived in Texas I was good friends with a number of former refugees. The harrowing stories of escape they told were heart wrenching. It never ceases to amaze me what the human spirit will do to survive.
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