Immigrants’ survival story all American

This is an amazing story about this family, barely surviving under the Khmer Rouge, their journey to San Diego and their lives now.    - - Donna Poisl

By Fred Dickey

The father extended his cupped hands in supplication. In them, he held a small amount of discarded rice from the field. He asked the overseer, pleadingly, respectfully, “Uncle, it’s only a little, and my family is hungry.”

The older man made an indefinite gesture of impatience that Youleng Heng chose to interpret as permission. Happily, he took his pittance of a treasure home to his mother, wife and son. It was a small win in the fight to stay alive. But Heng didn’t know he might die for the rice.
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