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...Tuan Tran...
...friend Tran Minh Cong, 45, works for the Orange County housing authority. "This country has been very gracious to me," he says. "But remember, I was forced to leave my country. I am hoping to go back there. Home is home." For now, however, he calls himself Joe Tran...
...learn to adjust to a new system in a new society so they can help themselves and their families." Out of 83 students on the honor roll at Brighton High, 56 are Vietnamese. All 32 Vietnamese members of last June's graduating class went on to college. Thanh Tran, 19, who left his parents and eight siblings in Viet Nam three years ago, earned a scholarship to Boston College, where he is studying math and computer science. "I came here just for learning," he says. "Every single day I try so hard because I want to help my parents...
Several months ago, the entire population came down with scabies. More recently, respiratory infections have been a problem, especially for the camp's 400 children. But the most serious malady is malaria. Nearly everyone has it, and some have suffered six or seven attacks. Says Tran Long, 27, a former mathematics teacher from Saigon: "Inadequate food and sanitation are our biggest problems. There are not enough latrines. The rainy season turns the camp into a cesspool...
...attacked, not by pursuing Vietnamese but by a vessel carrying eight Thai fishermen. The pirates kidnaped Thuy and another young girl, then sank the refugees' boat with the rest of the Vietnamese still clinging to it. "I can't forget the look on my little sister Tran's face when she slipped below the water," Thuy said later. "I still can't sleep. The pirates were so cruel...