I found an interesting story while surfing in the internet which can also be called as successful story of one of the former Vietnamese refugee. It is indeed a story of struggle and committment of a refugee to become a US navy officer. Check out this story:-
WASHINGTON — A US military officer who fled Vietnam as a boy and was picked up by an American ship will soon visit the country in command of a destroyer, the US Navy said on Friday.
Born in the Vietnamese city of Hue, Commander Hung Ba Le and his family were picked up at sea in 1975 by a US naval ship in the closing days of the Vietnam war, the Navy said on its website.
His family settled in Virginia and he later became a US citizen, graduating in 1992 from the US Naval Academy.
He is due to return to Vietnam in November with his ship, the guided missile destroyer USS Lassen, on a goodwill visit, the Navy said.
"This will be an incredible experience for me personally, to return to the land of my birth for the first time since I was a child," Le said in the Navy's report.
"My memories of Vietnam are very few, yet I still feel very drawn to it, to its culture, and to its people," he said.
It will be Le's first visit back to Vietnam since he was five years old -- when his family joined the wave of refugees fleeing after the fall of Saigon.
Le called the visit "a symbol of the friendship between our two nations."
The first Vietnamese-American to command a US naval ship, Le in April took over the helm of the USS Lassen, which is part of the US 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan.
Born in the Vietnamese city of Hue, Commander Hung Ba Le and his family were picked up at sea in 1975 by a US naval ship in the closing days of the Vietnam war, the Navy said on its website.
His family settled in Virginia and he later became a US citizen, graduating in 1992 from the US Naval Academy.
He is due to return to Vietnam in November with his ship, the guided missile destroyer USS Lassen, on a goodwill visit, the Navy said.
"This will be an incredible experience for me personally, to return to the land of my birth for the first time since I was a child," Le said in the Navy's report.
"My memories of Vietnam are very few, yet I still feel very drawn to it, to its culture, and to its people," he said.
It will be Le's first visit back to Vietnam since he was five years old -- when his family joined the wave of refugees fleeing after the fall of Saigon.
Le called the visit "a symbol of the friendship between our two nations."
The first Vietnamese-American to command a US naval ship, Le in April took over the helm of the USS Lassen, which is part of the US 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan.
(Source: AFP)
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