News: Laotian American

Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died at the age of 93. McNamara was one of the key architects of the Vietnam war, which killed at least three million Vietnamese, around one million Cambodians and Laotians, and 58,000 American soldiers. We take a look at McNamara's legacy with two pre-eminent historians: Howard Zinn and Marilyn Young.

Three Laotian teenage boys were having trouble adjusting to American society in the small town where their refugee families had been sent to live after the

This is the legacy that the United States left in Laos nearly 40 years ago. Legacies of War. Soon more will be revealed on the kinds of legacies that the Laotian Diaspora would like to see happen as it relates to their homeland, to the American public as well as to continued devastation, destruction and pain that is still gripping Laos & beyond!

Thousands of Lao tribesmen died fighting in the Vietnam war, rescuing American pilots and guarding radars. Survivors legally immigrated to the US. However, a recent welfare reform discriminating against legal immigrants cut off food stamps to Lao refugees.

In the annals of history's great escapes there is no other story like that of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle. After months plotting his getaway from a harrowing prison and a death-defying journey through some of the world's fiercest wilderness, Dengler appeared at his first pr...

"Rescue Dawn" is the true story of the late German-American Navy pilot Dieter Dengler. The heroic Dengler flew in the Vietnam War, was shot down, and became a POW in Laos. He staged a daring and successful escape and then managed to survive the brutal Laotian jungle. Dengler is said to be the only American ever to escape a POW camp in the