Katrina Uproots Vietnamese Immigrants9/5/05
Courtesy of latimes.com
HOUSTON -- Thousands of Vietnamese settled in the familiar climate of the Gulf Coast region after the upheaval of two wars in their homeland. Hurricane Katrina uprooted them again -- the third mass evacuation in a collective memory of loss.
Quan Hong Huyn first learned what it meant to lose a home and escape near-certain destruction when he was sent to a "re-education" camp in his native Vietnam in 1975 and when he fled to the United States through Malaysia.
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