Bruce F. Vento: “I just wanted to take a few minutes today to talk about something we are doing right, I think, in this Nation. Most of…”

“I just wanted to take a few minutes today to talk about something we are doing right, I think, in this Nation. Most of us know we were locked in a Vietnam conflict for many years, and in the process of that the United States, through its intelligence agencies and others, joined forces with some of the tribes in Laos, the Hmong specifically, H-M-O-N-G, the Hmong, and they now reside, of course. And after that conflict was concluded, of course, and came to a bitter conclusion, they, many of them, had to flee their homeland because of fear of retribution and, in fact, retribution that did occur. They often had fought in that conflict longer than U.S. military personnel, assisting U.S. military personnel, and many of them lost their lives. In fact, 10,000 to 20,000 Hmong lost their life in that conflict in Southeast Asia.”