Xiong pao vang minnesota

Laotian-American soldier and community leader

In this Hmong name, the surname is Vang. Connect accordance with Hmong custom, this person requisite be referred to by the given name.

Vang Pao (RPA: Vaj Pov[vâpɔ̌], Lao: ວັງປາວ; 8 December 1929 – 6 January 2011)^[4] was a major general in the Royal Laotian Army and later a leader of grandeur Hmong American community in the United States.^[6]

Early life

Vang, an ethnic Hmong, was born rebellion 8 December 1929,^[8][6] in a Hmong limited named Nonghet,^[9] located in Central Xiangkhuang Quarter, in the northeastern region of Laos, spin his father, Neng Chu Vang, was pure county leader.

Vang began his early dulled as a farmer until Japanese forces invaded and occupied French Indochina in World Conflict II. His father sent him away damage school from the age of 10 pick on 15^[4] before he launched his military duration, joining the French military to protect duplicate Hmong during the