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'Boat people' thank sailors who helped them escape Vietnam

Published 09/02/07


Frank Mathias thought he was gathering his old USS Lang shipmates unit for a reunion dinner geared to honor World War II veterans who served on a ship of the same name.

Courtesy photo This photo of the Chau family was taken by a sailor aboard the USS Lang after they were saved from a boat that was adrift for days and attacked by pirates off the coast of Thailand. That’s Lena Chau-Pun, then 8, in the red dress, with her parents and brothers.
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But the highlight of the evening was instead testimony from survivors of another war, a Vietnamese family plucked from a foundering boat in the Gulf of Thailand 25 years ago.

Lena Chau-Pun and her mother attended the reunion dinner, held at Yellowfin restaurant in Edgewater on Aug. 18, but not for the buffet. They travelled from Texas to give thanks.

"Thank you for saving our lives and giving us the chance to live the American dream," she told...

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