While a very small number of Hmong are educated and have become teachers, businessmen, engineers and farmers, the great majority -estimates run 80 to 95 percent -do not have jobs and do not have skills to work in the United States. When Christl reads that the Vietnamese Texas tycoon "isn't unique among the 700,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians" in the United States she fears the secret soldiers of Laos will become the hidden refugees in America whose wrenching cultural assimilation will be overshadowed by the success stories of those Indochinese more able to cope. It is a fate the Hmong should not suffer, she says, because of the crucial role they played for the United States in the Vietnam era. Lionel Rosenblatt, refugee coordinator for the United States in Thailand just after the war and again in 1978-81, explains that the Hmong became pivotal for the U.S. military strategy in Laos because "according to the Geneva Accords of 1960 there were no foreign troops to be stationed in Laos."
"Of course the Vietnamese Army was there in abundance, but the American military did not put ground combat troops into Laos and the Hmong really formed our army -a very unique relationship with the Hmong, therefore, that we didn't have with any other group on the ground in Indochina."
While a very small number of Hmong are educated and have become teachers, businessmen, engineers and farmers, the great majority -estimates run 80 to 95 percent -do not have jobs and do not have skills to work in the United States. When Christl reads that the Vietnamese Texas tycoon "isn't unique among the 700,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians" in the United States she fears the secret soldiers of Laos will become the hidden refugees in America whose wrenching cultural assimilation will be overshadowed by the success stories of those Indochinese more able to cope. It is a fate the Hmong should not suffer, she says, because of the crucial role they played for the United States in the Vietnam era. Lionel Rosenblatt, refugee coordinator for the United States in Thailand just after the war and again in 1978-81, explains that the Hmong became pivotal for the U.S. military strategy in Laos because "according to the Geneva Accords of 1960 there were no foreign troops to be stationed in Laos."
"Of course the Vietnamese Army was there in abundance, but the American military did not put ground combat troops into Laos and the Hmong really formed our army -a very unique relationship with the Hmong, therefore, that we didn't have with any other group on the ground in Indochina."
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