Nebraska Stories: Safe Harbor
Clip: Season 9 Episode 6 | 6m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Now a success medical doctor, Dr. Bich Chau tells her story of fleeing Vietnam.
Dr. Bich Chau of Lincoln was one of the “boat people” who escaped post-war Communist rule in Vietnam. She remembers living comfortably in Saigon where her father worked as a policeman. Then the communists came, and put her father in jail. When he was released, her family escaped in a boat crammed with 94 other people who would rather face Thai pirates and uncertain life in a refugee camp.
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Nebraska Stories: Safe Harbor
Clip: Season 9 Episode 6 | 6m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Dr. Bich Chau of Lincoln was one of the “boat people” who escaped post-war Communist rule in Vietnam. She remembers living comfortably in Saigon where her father worked as a policeman. Then the communists came, and put her father in jail. When he was released, her family escaped in a boat crammed with 94 other people who would rather face Thai pirates and uncertain life in a refugee camp.
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