Vang Pao was a major general in the Royal Lao Army and later a leader of the Hmong American community in the United States.
Vang in 2004
Programs Evaluation Office (PEO) adviser Jack F. Mathews with then Major Vang Pao, commander of the 10éme Bataillon de Infanterie (10 BI), at Nong Net, July 1960.
Hmong Americans are Americans of Hmong ancestry. Many Hmong Americans immigrated to the United States as refugees in the late 1970s. Over half of the Hmong population from Laos left the country, or attempted to leave, in 1975, at the culmination of the Laotian Civil War.
A memorial in front of Fresno County Court House commemorating Hmong service.
Hmong Americans at a community recycling event in Saint Paul
Providence (Rhode Island) Hmong Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance