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so a background on me and my family . 

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I'm from Houston texas , born and 

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raised but my parents were from Vietnam , 

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my dad was an immigrant and my mom was 

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a refugee after the Vietnam war . My 

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mom had to escape to Thailand to catch 

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a boat and sail all the way to America . 

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Unlike my father where he was actually 

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thrown in reeducation camp for being a 

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south Vietnamese marine . Eventually 

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they released him and he found himself 

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working in east Germany and eventually 

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escaped by hopping the Berlin wall and 

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catching a plane to America . 

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Whenever the fall of Kabul was 

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happening , me and my father was 

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watching the television , watching the 

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news and 

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just silence and when my father finally 

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spoke he just showed so much 

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empathy . I felt like there was a drive , 

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there need to do something but I just 

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couldn't . And luckily this 

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mobilization came along and it was 

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finally my chance to do something . 

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These people are going to be a first 

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generation americans and eventually 

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they'll have kids who are going to be 

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second generation americans and years 

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from now we'll see a huge 

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population of afghan americans . Just 

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the same way we saw a rise in 

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population of Vietnamese americans . Mm 

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hmm It's very important to me 

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because I am able to see many faces and 

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many families and I'm able to see a 

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face of joy . The face of 

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appreciation and mostly a face of hope