25 Sep
2011
25 Sep
'11
9:44 p.m.
At 11:48 PM 9/25/2011, Mike Mitchell wrote:
I'm old, so I've meet many refugees from the older countries. Worked and lived with them too. Ask the chick that owns and runs The Cuckoo what it is like to be a refugee. She defected from East Germany. I have another friend that did the same from Poland. The Cold War didn't end that long ago but we seem to have forgotten the lessons and the costs.
The story that made the most impact for me was from an actual "boat person" from Vietnam. He was left for dead as a teenager. Somehow, someone found him and managed to get him onto a boat to Australia. I knew him as a uni student, and one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com