By Sheng Thao My mom fled her home country of Laos during the secret war in the early 1970s when genocide was being perpetrated against our people – the Hmong people. She lost her first husband, a soldier, to the war. And when she finally escaped, she was a widowed mother of a 1-year-old, and | By Sheng Thao My mom fled her home country of Laos during the secret war in the early 1970s when genocide was being perpetrated against our people – the Hmong people. She lost her first husband, a soldier, to the war. And when she finally escaped, she was a widowed mother of a 1-year-old, and