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- United States President Barack Obama, the first American president to visit the country of Laos, announces that the U.S. will double its annual funding to $90 million dollars over the next three years to expand efforts to remove un-exploded bombs dropped in Laos during the Vietnam War. Obama also talks about the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying that failure to move ahead on the trade deal will not only have economic consequences but call into question American leadership in the region. Held in Vientiane, Laos.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Hmong teacher and organizer Maykao K. Lytongpao describes emigrating from Laos to France and then to Michigan as a child. Lytongpao discusses running a Hmong social service and cultural emissary non-profit, noting the ways Hmong culture has shifted as a result of diaspora. She also talks about appearing in the film "Gran Torino."
- Date Issued:
- 2013-02-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Hmong immigrant and Michigan resident Lian Xiong reminisces about growing up on her family's farm in Laos and her childhood experience of war. Xiong recounts her family's escape from Laos, focusing especially the uncertainty of trusting boaters to ferry them across the Mekong River. She also discusses life in a refugee camp in Thailand, where she met her husband. Part 1 of 3.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former soldier and Hmong immigrant Kao Xiong recounts his role in the Laotian Civil War and his subsequent escape to the to Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, where he spent five years. He recalls what it was like to meet and marry his wife in the camp, the pain of separation from family and friends when they emigrated to Michigan and the difficulty of adjusting to a new way of life. Part 2 of 3.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Hmong immigrant Tong Vue describes her life sustenance-farming in Laos, saying that her connection to homegrown food makes her Hmong. She recounts her escape into Thailand without identity papers and eventually coming to the United States.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-09-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- MSU undergraduate Christine Xiong discusses what it is like to grow up as a child of Hmong immigrants. She reflects on having family in Laos that she has never met, but with whom she stays in contact.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-10-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama recounts the actions of Medal of Honor recipient Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, during a ceremony at the White House. Obama explains why Etchberger’s actions on March 11, 1968 in Laos have been classified and unrecognized for over forty years. Chief Etchberger receives the award posthumously. An unidentified speaker reads the official Congressional citation as the President presents the medal to Chief Etchberger’s family. Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains, Brigadier General David H. Cyr, delivers the invocation and the benediction.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-09-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Hmong immigrant and former soldier Tom Vue discusses emigrating from Laos to the U.S. via a camp in Thailand. He discusses taking command of 1200 troops in the rain forests of Laos after Hmong General Vang Pao emigrated to the US in 1975. Vue talks about their defeat by the communists in 1977 and his flight from Laos to Thailand. He also speaks about coming to Lansing, MI with his family and working in social services as a translator and refugee interviewer.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-02-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Homng immigrant Chou Xiong reflects on her childhood in Laos and her family's migration to Michigan by way of refugee camps in Thailand and France. She discusses working multiple jobs in each location, eventually becoming a business owner, and speaks about how these experiences caused her to encourage her children to pursue education.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Hmong immigrant and former soldier Tom Vue discusses emigrating from Laos to the U.S. via a camp in Thailand. He discusses taking command of 1200 troops in the rain forests of Laos after Hmong General Vang Pao emigrated to the US in 1975. Vue talks about their defeat by the communists in 1977 and his flight from Laos to Thailand. He also speaks about coming to Lansing, MI with his family and working in social services as a translator and refugee interviewer.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-02-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection