Vietnamese Refugees: Joseph Cao, Wayne C (Paperback)
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Vietnamese Refugees: Joseph Cao, Wayne C (Paperback)
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Joseph Cao, Wayne Cao, Boat people, Viet D. Dinh, Hung Quoc Nguyen, Journey from the Fall, Reeducation camp, Operation Babylift, B t u t nay, Janet Nguyen, Nguyen Van Thuan, Tran Van Hoai, Nam Le, Galang Refugee Camp, Operation New Life, Skyluck, Fort Chaffee, Bidong Island, Philippine Refugee Processing Center, Ung Thi, Comprehensive Plan of Action, Le Chi Thuc, Degar refugees in Cambodia, Operation New Arrivals, Deo Van Long, Bolinao 52, Viet Museum, The Vietnamese Gulag, Cap Anamur. Excerpt: Anh "Joseph" Quang Cao (Vietnamese: English pronunciation: born March 13, 1967 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is the former U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. In April 2011, he announced he will be a candidate for Attorney General of Louisiana in 2011. He was the first Vietnamese American to serve in Congress, and the first Republican to serve in his district since 1891. Cao's father, My Quang Cao (born 1931), was a lieutenant in the South Vietnamese Army and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. His mother, Khang Thi Tran (born 1935), did not immediately flee South Vietnam, staying with five of Cao's siblings and allowed to visit her husband only five times during the seven years he was imprisoned in a Communist "re-education camp." Anh Cao was eight years old when he went to the United States in 1975 with two other siblings and an uncle as refugees. Once released, Cao's father joined his family in Houston, Texas, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and diabetes. Cao almost became a Roman Catholic priest. He graduated from Jersey Village High School in Houston. He then earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He was a Jesuit seminarian for ...
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