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ENTRY LEVEL
A Laotian Immigrant Bucks Cultural Taboos to Help Hmong Women
In 1976, when I was 8 years old, my family and I came to the United States as refugees from Laos. We are Hmong, which is one of the ethnic groups in Laos that acted as allies of the Americans during the Vietnam War.
We lived in an area that saw the Communist forces moving arms from North Vietnam to South Vietnam. Consequently the U.S. Army recruited...