Vietnam

I am one of eleven brothers and sisters. In 1978, my family escaped Vietnam by boat. My family spent 13 months in a Malaysian refugee camp and resettled in the ...

I am determined to repay our nation for the opportunity to have a good life. I have served the community in many capacities. The company manufactured, packaged and exported food products to the European Market. Milpitas offered a better way of life than where my brothers, sisters and I were born. We will never be able to repay our parents for the wonderful gift they gave us when they loaded our family into a small boat to escape the communists in Vietnam and started our journey to America to begin a new life. As newcomers to the country and with my father’s death, my mother felt like the sky collapsed on her.