Project featured in The Courier Journal

Our project was featured in The Courier-Journal on September 21, 2010. Here is an excerpt from the full article by Elizabeth Kramer:

"Earlier this year, Yung Nguyen was asked to tell his story — of his life growing up in Vietnam, and the wars. While his parents worked to shelter him from the violence, he recalls seeing a bomb explode in restaurant just blocks away from his school and a particular story about a relative.

'He was prosecuted and they tied him up, put him out in the open field under the sun, in an open field,” he said, “and just left him there to die under the sun. But he didn't die right away. It took him a long time to die and eventually his wife actually bribed a soldier to shoot him to end his suffering...”