As a Vietnamese American working in San Francisco this fills me with pride in the strength of our Vietnamese people to persevere. My mother nearly died trying to escape Vietnam and through a successive string of luck ended up immigrating to America and opening a small business in our home state of Virginia.
The article unfortunately skips from Vietnam -> Indonesia ->Maryland in a few short paragraphs. There is likely some amazing depth to this story that is not being surfaced here. I would love for a more in depth interview to be done al la Kevin Rose style.