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Common Dreams

With risks come rewards

With risks come rewards

by Donny Ha Corsentino

Tue, Jun 30, 2009

Once upon a time, a small nation was plunged into civil war, leaving its people poor, dying, desperate. To escape, hundreds and thousands of people fled the country, risking death for the promise of safety in the golden country, any country but Vietnam. My family was among them. Twice we failed.