Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161114:01:23:00
English. >> of course. >> you came over in '78, did you say? >> late '77. i was 10 years old. literally, we left, i say cover, but it was a raft. >> a raft. >> there was a whohole in the b. sat in water the entire time, sitting in soaking water. we were refugees into the united states. we lived in government hsing projects. me, my sister, we were placed in the same category. but we were probably the first wave of boat people. >> what was such the urgency to take such a tremendous risk? >> our parents felt we needed to take a chance on freedom and opportunity than to live under communist rule. ...