liglawm,
You have spoken from your heart and we can feel it. However some of
your anger is misplaced toward some SCH members. I am sure it is human
nature for people to glorify their own actions. In this situation like
this, everyone should be encouraged to tell their story. SCH is all
about sharing feeling and opinion, searching for solutions......SCH is
full of good info if you know how to filter them. Those who can't find
the good info tend to attenuate the importance of SCH. But they know
that they can't leave!!!!
If you could accept my humble opinion, I suggest people like you to
write you own memoir from your own perspective that is unique and so
far unexplored. This is the best time. Freedom of expression is at its
best. If you don't do it then no one else will. If you wait for
somebody else then they will write their opinion that you may not
interested. Just like Hmong leng keep blaming on Hmong der for failing
their own initiative or just like we have failed to write our own Hmong
histroy. So far we rely on "them" to tell our history.
I see thing differently, I think that all Hmong has paid the price.
People are different, some are born fortuntate orther unfortunate. All
the contribution and responsibily are also different.
Sibtham
@
yahoo.com wrote:
> Stop bragging about your colonel daddies. You have to accept the facts
> that all your daddies became famous and rich with big bucks from VP and
> the CIA because those uneducated and unselfish people like myself, my
> father, two brothers, whole village of uncles, cousins, friends who
> stood in front and protect the real war in the battle field. Your
> colonel daddies were so lucky and got to live until today for you to
> brag about, but my brothers, four unlces, and two cousins were not
> lucky and got killed. Did your colonel daddies care? Hell, no. Each
> of your colonel daddies had a home in Long Cheng, and Vientiane with at
> least two young wives. You guys drank exported beers, wines, and ate
> roasted pigs, broiled chickens, and sirloin beef in your dinners. We
> ate zaub ntsuab ntxuag ntsev in the front battle fields. While you
> drove nice cars, motor cycles with your long hair like gansters
> cruising in Vientiane and Long Cheng, all of us stayed hungry soaked
> with rain in the jungle. Did we have opportunity like you? Hell, no.
> Were we equal? Hell, no. Back in the village, we barely had enough
> rice to feed the families, and save enough little monthly income to buy
> a pair of clothes for the kids. So, stop talking about your hearted
> and brave big shot daddies. I don't care who your daddies were then.
> You should talk and write about those who sucrefied most.
>
>
>
>
> LoneWriter wrote:
>>>> My goodness Dais,
>>>> There is not privacy anymore, in this life and maybe in following ones. You
>>>> know everything!
>>>>
>>>> Leave my dad live his last years in peace.
>>>> Don't abuse him anymore. He is not a beast of the Hmong American show
>>>> business for others' greeding of self-promotion.
>>>> I am thinking of some guys in Sacramento who took him to show off everywhere
>>>> a few years ago.
>>>> Leave the guy in peace even if his heart still beats for his people.
>>>>
>>>> You seem very concerned about sexism, incitation to hatred ... . Well, my
>>>> texts compared to VP and my dad's lives are absolutely nothing ... .
>>>> There are so much secrets hidden in these about 10 Hmong most powerful men
>>>> in Laos during this 70's that it is better to write fiction than writing
>>>> biographies that will cause trouble, hatred ...
>>>>
>>>> Why ask unaskable questions?
>>>>
>>>> some cross-thoughts: There are many new riches, many new scholars in the
>>>> field of knowledge, but as one of my friends said: a cat reamins a cat, a
>>>> lion a lion ... Concretely, many of you who hold PhD in history, education,
>>>> ... needs to acquire real knowledge of leadership, of courage, of integrity,
>>>> of compassion, of desinterestment, of "grandeur", of wisdom instead of
>>>> living your life with narrowness, competition, comparison, betrayal ... Do
>>>> not give up your friends easily ...and do not feel so important so arrogant
>>>> when you are simply a servant ... of some fields of knowledge. I have seen
>>>> good people, smart people ... the smartest people are the nicest people ...
>>>> Be/come humble, don't still others' projects, don't envy, greed others'
>>>> successes, on the contrary promote each otehr, and dp the best of your own
>>>> people ... .
>>>>
>>>> You know, in getting old, I have learnt to appreciate people like my dad ...
>>>> They were really courageous.
>>>> In 1970's, when the Vietminh attacked Long Cheng, only two people remained
>>>> to defend the city: the 1st one was my father, major Colonel Shoua Yang and
>>>> the second, Colonel Shong Lue Xiong. I think they were the bravest during
>>>> the secret war. Well, many of you in this forum will claim to have a father
>>>> with so much stars too .. but do some further reasearch before claiming...
>>>> The attack of Long Cheng was one of the most offensive ever in the history
>>>> of the SEA continent ...and Long cheng has survived ... yes these two guys
>>>> quite aged now remains true heroes. Nothing else to say.
>>>>
>>>> Heroes are people who knows that there are dangers of death, but still
>>>> remained until the end.
>>>>
>>>> I do not like to talk a lot about my family; But I am a woman very lucky to
>>>> have such a father with vision, leadership, integrity.
>>>>
>>>> All of us, only have a unique life, please be nice, be gentle, be polite, be
>>>> open minded, do not focus on clan interest or egotism: Live the life you
>>>> want by being the best to yourself, but to others too. Write books, write
>>>> stories, write about things that nobod will have the courage to write, do
>>>> not expect all to love, to agree with you, write because it is a necessity,
>>>> a reason to live, to say things that nobody dares say .... .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> KL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "LoneWriter"
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