Finding Refuge in KC: Hank
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Hank spent a year building a boat to escape Vietnam and wound up in Kansas City.
Hank, a Vietnamese “boat person” spent a year building a boat on a remote island in the Mekong River. He and dozens of others made the perilous journey across the Pacific Ocean to Indonesia. In 2017, Hank and his wife San opened “San’s Sandwiches,” a popular Vietnamese restaurant in Gladstone.
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Finding Refuge in KC is a local public television program presented by Kansas City PBS
Finding Refuge in KC: Hank
Clip | 5m 57s
Hank, a Vietnamese “boat person” spent a year building a boat on a remote island in the Mekong River. He and dozens of others made the perilous journey across the Pacific Ocean to Indonesia. In 2017, Hank and his wife San opened “San’s Sandwiches,” a popular Vietnamese restaurant in Gladstone.
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