Summary of Dr. Vinh Chung's Where the Wind Leads

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was a child when Vietnam fell to communism in 1975. My family was forced to flee and end up in Arkansas. In 1979, my family was half-dead from dehydration when we were rescued by a fishing boat packed with refugees lost in the middle of the South China Sea. #2 When my father was born in 1937, the world was about to erupt in a frenzy of violence that left no one untouched. Within ten years of his birth, fifty million human beings died. My father was born at a moment in history when the entire world was about to erupt in a frenzy of violence that left no one untouched. #3 My dad was a merchant in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. One day, Khmer men came to his village and pointed at his head, saying they would cut off his head if he did not trade with them. #4 The world was about to erupt in a frenzy of violence that left no one untouched, when my father was born in 1937. Half a million human beings died within ten years of his birth.