Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao veterans who fought alongside the U.S. during the Secret War Lee Pao Xiong, a professor from the Center for Hmong Studies ...

Fifty years have passed since the clandestine military base fell to Communist soldiers, forcing tens of thousands of Hmong people to run from persecution for their alliance with Americans in the ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – In the 60s and early 70s, thousands of soldiers sacrificed their lives in the name of democracy, but the legacy of those who fought in the Secret War has remained a ...

The CIA recruited tens of thousands of Hmong men and boys as surrogate fighters for the U.S. in the Secret War in Laos during the 1960s and 1970s. Approximately 35,000 Hmong died protecting American ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - Hmong Service Center Inc. celebrated Labor Day weekend with the Hmong National Labor Day Festival in Oshkosh on Saturday morning. This event celebrated Hmong culture and honored ...

Many in the Minnesota Hmong and Lao communities hope House lawmakers will pass a bill aimed at granting limited veterans' benefits to Hmong and Lao special guerrilla units veterans in the Secret War.

MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - The flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin will be flown at half-staff on Wednesday, May 14, in honor of Hmong-Lao Veterans Day. Gov. Tony Evers signed an ...

Dozens of Hmong veterans marched Friday with their U.S. allies at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.., to remember a long-ago war in Laos. Michael Doyle McClatchy ARLINGTON NATIONAL ...

For decades, Ha Toung kept quiet about his experience in Southeast Asia. Toung, a former officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, migrated to the United States when American troops left Vietnam ...

Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao and other veterans who fought alongside the U.S. in the “Secret War” during the 1960s and 1970s in Laos. A veterans and ...

MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Gov. Tony Evers has signed Executive Order #260 directing U.S. and Wisconsin flags be flown at half-staff statewide Wednesday, May 14 to mark Hmong-Lao Veterans Day. The ...

Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao and other veterans who fought alongside the U.S. in the “Secret War” during the 1960s and 1970s in Laos. A veterans and ...