The story starts in 1981 when Grandpa and Grandma picked up the Xiong family—Hmong refugees newly arrived in America with a passel of skinny, dark-eyed children—at the Eau Claire airport. Well, actually the story starts before that, during the years of the Vietnam War, when the Hmong people living in the mountains of Laos were […]
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Remember hearing about the Nickel Mines shooting back in October of 2006? That incident touched the hearts of many people, but who knew it would reach a long arm across the ocean to touch the lives of the Kurds? On October 2, 2006, a milk truck driver named Charles Roberts walked into an Amish classroom in
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There are blonde jokes; we’ve all heard them. There are lawyer jokes and Polish jokes and yo’ mama jokes. And then there are Mennonite jokes. I like these best, in the perverse manner of humanity. We love to laugh at ourselves. Self-ridicule brings a proud sort of shamed kinship, ridicule from others solidarity. Here’s my
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