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Ha's best friend Titi, and her family flee
Vietnam to get away from the war. -
Ha explains her fathers disapperance
when she was just a baby. -
Ha's brother Quang tells his family that
a South Vietnam piolet bombed their presidential
palace. -
Ha's father's friend uncle Son visits Ha's family and warns
them to flee to the U.S.A to escape the war. -
Ha's mother holds a family meeting to discuss
the decision of their family staying with the
danger of the war, or fleeing to another country. -
On TV Ha and her mother see their
country's president say he cannot be
the president anymore. -
The decision was made that Ha and her family will
travel to safety. Uncle Son comes again and tells
them to be ready to leave any time. -
Ha and her family climb onto the crowded ship
and hide with all the other escapies in the bottom
part of the ship. They all know they could die
on it but there is only hope left for them. -
The crowded ship still moves on looking
for safety, and Ha and her family have to
suffer from hunger and thirst only getting
a small amount of food and water each day. -
Brother Quang starts teaching his family
english after one week on the ship. -
The Americans rescue Ha and her people
and bring them food and water, but still they
dont have a country to call home. -
Ha and her family are safe on an
island called Guam but still no
actual home just a tent. -
Ha and her family choose to now
live their lives in America, so
they are flown to Florida where they still have to live in a tent. -
Ha and her family are flown to
Alabama where a family has
agreed to sponser them. Finally
they will have a home. -
One of the people in the two
person family that agreed to
sponser them is a man who is very
kind, and the women his wife is not. -
Ha begins school and along with that many bullying problems.
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Ha and her family are blessed with a new neighbor Mrs. Washington, who guides them through their new life.
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Ha and her Family find out that Fther is dead and never coming homwe.