Amerasian

And I told him about the Amerasians who got off welfare and are giving voice to the once-forgotten children of a distant war.

The dark shadows of the past are receding , even in Vietnam, where discrimination against Amerasians has faded.

Of all the immigrants in the United States, the Amerasians, I think, are the group that's had the hardest time finding the American Dream.

Washington, like Hanoi, wanted to use the Amerasians as leverage for settling larger issues between the two countries.

We were their meal ticket, and people offered a lot of money to Amerasians willing to claim them as mothers and grandparents and siblings.

Like most Amerasians still in Vietnam, she was uneducated and unskilled.

For Amerasians the journey to a new life would be much tougher.

I asked some Amerasians if they were expecting Le Van Minh, who lived not far away in a two-bedroom house, to come to the gala.

Not until 1986, in secret negotiations covering a range of disagreements, did Washington and Hanoi hold direct talks on Amerasians' future.

As adults, some Amerasians would say that they felt cursed from the start.

The cavernous Chinese restaurant in a San Jose mall where Amerasians gathered for their gala filled quickly.

They were Amerasians. Some called him "Daddy. "

Many orphanages were closed, and Amerasians and other youngsters were sent off to rural work farms and re-education camps.