First of all, do you know that the country Laos didn't exist before....?

For your information, before you start laughing, you should start reading and getting your facts.

MY FATHER went to the American Embassy in Thailand to ask for help in Laos when America pulled out. (He is not General Vang Pao, for your information, nor the other leaders I have heard so much of.) Even if America could not help with soldiers, MY FATHER asked for supplies for his fellow soldiers and followers, who was willing to fight til the end.

HE WAS THAT DETERMINE TO SEEK LAOS OUT FOR HIS PEOPLE. Do you know why?! Because once Communist took over, THE HMONG would be executed, which is happening today, my fellow Hmong! Your people are dying and living a life of fear in Laos and you, living well in America, have the audacity to laugh and say that Laos was never Hmong's in the first place.

Let's go to history then. Where did the country Laos come from? Where was IndoChina and what happened to this great land of IndoChina? Why Laos, when so many other ethnic group lived in this area, and when the culture and language of Thai and Laos are similar compared to Hmong and the other ethnic group.

In the heart, my father is a ChaoFa, but he is not of the ChaoFa leaders today. Because sadly the leaders are not what you think they are too. But I feel sorry for the followers of the ChaoFa who are fighting in what they believe their leaders believe in. And America dare call them guerillas and terrorists, when it is the Hmong who are being hunted down and eliminated?

Do you know what the Americans told him when he went to ask for help? It was a total irony with what the Americans said? They directed him to another superpower, which I cannot say. This of course changed the total course of my Father's mission.

Do you know that my father went to seek these other people's (who U.S. directed him to) help and an official person, who came to meet my father, dare accused my father of going against this signed treaty and being a TRAITOR to his own country of Laos for wanting to overthrow the new communist government. He dare say that the new government was now widely acknowledge by the world and is legitimate and MY father would be a traitor if he went against it.

(The anger can never be ridden when you think of the cruelties and unfairness in this world.)

My father was soo mad, he pounded the table and told the official that how dare the official person say such a thing when he(my father) was A CITIZEN of the country of Laos and wasn't even allow the right to vote for that government.

That official couldn't say a thing back to my father. He imediately sent a letter to the capital for the head to meet my father. But sadly, one of my father's followers betrayed him. My father still didn't even want to come to America, even knowing this, for he believed so much in fighting for his country. If not for the fact that he grew bitter from the fact that his own people would be able to betray him that he finally left and came to America broken-hearted.

Now he has decided to live secludedly in America, but he still hopes for the time his people will stand up to regain Laos again, for everytime he hears of his people being persecuted in Laos, he would seek his friends and relatives out to see if anything could be done to win the country yet.

Even if this time doesn't come, I know and he knows that a great mass of knowledge was learnt about politics, friends, and power through the courage of fighting for a country to call your own.

I know I will do something for him in my lifetime to recognize his bravery and courage for his people. I only hope his hopes will come true, for his sake and our people suffering back there. I know you and I have nothing to lose if we don't win our country back, because I must be crazy to want to leave this land of opportunity when I am well of in this country. But it is for the elders that I am thinking of, NOT YOU OR ME.