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Army Brig. Gen. Lapthe Flora, the assistant adjutant general for the Virginia National Guard, talks about his military career and his experiences as a refugee coming to the U.S. during an event highlighting the service of Asian and Pacific Islander-Americans at the Association of the U.S. Army in Arlington, Virginia, May 25, 2017. Flora fled Saigon in 1975, living in the jungle for several years before leaving Vietnam on a boat with hundreds of other refugees in 1980. He came to the U.S. in 1981, after living for a year in a refugee camp in Indonesia, and enlisted in 1987 as a way to “give back” to the country.
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Arlington, VA - Army Brig. Gen. Lapthe Flora, the assistant adjutant general for the Virginia National Guard, talks about his military career and his experiences as a refugee coming to the U.S. during an event highlighting the service of Asian and Pacific Islander-Americans at the Association of the U.S. Army in Arlington, Virginia, May 25, 2017. Flora fled Saigon in 1975, living in the jungle for several years before leaving Vietnam on a boat with hundreds of other refugees in 1980. He came to the U.S. in 1981, after living for a year in a refugee camp in Indonesia, and enlisted in 1987 as a way to “give back” to the country.


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