On
Wednesday,
April 17th
of this year
I wrote about
who I consider one of my
Heroes.
I wrote it with a lot of help from
Once again I am going to tell you about a person that I recognize as a
Hero
named
He is a professor at
and a refugee from
during the time the
took control of the country.
Ear's father, Ear Muy Cuong, was a pharmacist in Phnom Penh.[3][4]
In 1975 the family was evacuated from Phnom Penh to the Pursat
province, where they lived in a labor camp and worked the fields. It was
there that Ear's father died of dysentery and malnutrition after a
brief stay at a mite-infested Khmer Rouge 'hospital. In 1976, when Ear's mother, Cam Youk Lim, heard that Vietnamese citizens in Cambodia were being allowed to return to Vietnam, she pretended to be Vietnamese and was able to escape Pol Pot's Cambodia with Ear and his four older siblings when Ear was ten years old. They went first to Hong Ngu, Vietnam; Ear's mother took the family to France and then to the U.S. His mother later worked as a seamstress at Elegance Embroidery in Oakland, California. He wrote and narrated the 2011 documentary film “The End/Beginning:
Cambodia,” which tells the story of his escape from Cambodia. The film won awards at the New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards.
If you ever get the chance to read one of his books
or see the documentary about his family's escape from
Cambodia
you will see how amazing his story really is.
The brief description in
Wikipedia
just doesn't give it justice.
This is,
Admiring Amazing People
Jim Hauenstein,
And,
"White Americans, What, nothing better to do? Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too!"
That is my story and I am sticking to it!
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