The Hmong and the Vietnam War by Sae Yang https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh en-us 2019-04-30 14:19:56 UTC 2019-04-30 15:10:42 UTC hello@padlet.com A Poem: My Dad, the Mekong, and Me the Mississippi By Peter Yang yangsae https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355448650 He fought through a war
Helping his clan 
I forgot the war
Not giving a damn 
Searching the woods for family that night Searching my mind for anything right
I’ve never had to look for freedom 
He crossed a thousand miles to learn a language he did not know 
I crossed no land yet his language I do not know 
Remember the past he says
 I can’t I say
I was never meant to be there
Join me here I say
I can’ t
He says
I was never meant to be here]]> 2019-04-30 14:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355448650 Hmong nurses with no formal education- a reflection from a Hmong nurse yangsae https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355449499 2019-04-30 14:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355449499 Research and blog by Appleton native, Jeff Lindsay, on the Hmong yangsae https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355450956 2019-04-30 14:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355450956 Hmong involvement in the war yangsae https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355470030 1960-1975

More bombs were dropped on NE Laos than on Nazi controlled Europe in WWII.

35,000 Hmong soldiers die.
60,000 American lives lost.

U.S. signs Paris Peace Accords & withdraws from SE Asia

Persecution of Hmong begin, many flee to Thailand. An estimated 30,000 Hmong are killed by communists trying to reach Thailand.

Over 100,000 Hmong die as a result.]]> 2019-04-30 14:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355470030 1975-Present Day yangsae https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355470533 The U.S. starts bringing refugees over in 1975

By 1990- 100,000 Hmong enter the U.S.

About 250,000 Hmong live in the U.S.

A similar # still reside in Laos. Other places are Australia & France. Over 5 million Hmong still live in China.]]> 2019-04-30 14:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355470533 Interview with Hmong soliders yangsae https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355473329 2019-04-30 15:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355473329 Images of Hmong Artifacts yangsae https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355476397 2019-04-30 15:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/yangsae/o9aj0pv50ewh/wish/355476397