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Hamburger, Tom. "Hmong vets, who fought in secret, are honored; In the 1960s and '70s, Hmong soldiers aided the United States in its covert war in Laos. On Wednesday, Hmong veterans converged on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington to make sure they are not forgotten.(NEWS)." Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN). The Star Tribune Company. 1997. HighBeam Research. 29 Mar. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Hamburger, Tom. "Hmong vets, who fought in secret, are honored; In the 1960s and '70s, Hmong soldiers aided the United States in its covert war in Laos. On Wednesday, Hmong veterans converged on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington to make sure they are not forgotten.(NEWS)." Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN). 1997. HighBeam Research. (March 29, 2015). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62610224.html
Hamburger, Tom. "Hmong vets, who fought in secret, are honored; In the 1960s and '70s, Hmong soldiers aided the United States in its covert war in Laos. On Wednesday, Hmong veterans converged on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington to make sure they are not forgotten.(NEWS)." Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN). The Star Tribune Company. 1997. Retrieved March 29, 2015 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62610224.html
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Neng Mai Xiong of St. Paul was a captain in the Secret Army in Laos during the 1960s and 1970s, rescuing U.S. fighter pilots and organizing guerrilla attacks on the North Vietnamese Army.
This week he marshaled the men of his old platoon to unprecedented duties: lobbying members of Congress, organizing bus transportation and greeting thousands of Hmong and Lao veterans from Minnesota and other states who converged Wednesday on Washington.
The centerpiece of their historic journey was a three-hour, emotional ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations extolled the contributions and sacrifice of the 45,000-man Hmong Army, nearly half of which was slaughtered in combat.
The event was a first-of-its-kind reunion for the once-unknown hill tribe from Laos and its CIA advisers. The remembrance ceremony was solemn, but the entire event marked a new militancy and political savvy by the Hmong in requesting long-promised assistance.
"We are here to remind our old American friends where we came from and what we did," said Cherzong Vang of St. …
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