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When Vietnam changed to Communism, they stopped any business.
The new Vietnamese government considered ethnic Chinese,
like David and his family, an unwanted minority,
and pressured them to pay their own way out of the country
on crowded, dilapidated freighters.
All around me, my friends, my relatives, they leave Vietnam, so I follow them.
After a five-day voyage, 3,300 refugees, code-named frozen ducks,
arrived unannounced in Hong Kong waters.
This is an immigration control area. You are to leave immediately.
Do you understand?
They sat, stranded on that ship for an entire month
before British authorities allowed them to land.
And David, like many refugees, was relocated to the U.S.
But we start from nothing.