This War was for the freedom of the HMONG people

First of all, I would like to know if Americans are really an educated group?????? My father was a soldier defending his land and most of all his Hmong people. I agree that fighting with the U.S. for our freedom was the right thing to do. So would you have rather all the Hmong people fighting for their country, to just hold up a white flag and surrender before even trying. We were fighting the war for us, it is the Americans who were not fighting the right war. Did you know that about 3 years ago, the U.S. finally reconized my father and several of my uncles, as an American Veteran fighting for the special forces in Laos. This is truly a disgrace to the Hmong people who help to fight in the war for their own country. They are the true heroes and should have been reconized a long time ago. Most of these men are either retired or close to retiring, they can not even use the benefits that American veterans have. What good will reconizing them mean now? Many of them have past away already during and after the war. Why aren't their names listed on the Vietnam Memorial? They were fighting for the U.S. Army. Is it because they were not American citizens at the time they died for the United States? If so, what about the children of these soldiers who had to endure years without their parents? Who will help take care of them?

Questions that I would like answered by government officials, but always ignored because we are not their kind. We are Hmong, and as the new generation in the Americas, we will always remember out history and howthe U.S. forgotten that they were fighting a war that they thought was right!