From Vietnam to New Orleans, he's no stranger to catastrophe | latimes.com

Vietnamese fisherman
After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Kha Van Nguyen escaped Vietnam by sea. He and his family eventually settled in New Orleans, and he took up shrimping -- something he learned from his father on Vietnam's southern coast. (My-Thuan Tran, Los Angeles Times / July 29, 2010)

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