Massachusetts, USA
December 04, 2011
Liun was a Cambodian, perhaps 13, when he and his grandfather managed to flee the brutal Khmer Rouge and Liun would make his way to the United States.
He said he had spent more than a year lying flat on his stomach in the grass outside the open air classroom in the refugee camp near the Thai border. There was no room for him inside, so he learned to speak and understand English by listening to the teachers and students inside. Sometimes, he said, he had to strain to hear over the din from the monsoon rains that pummeled the tin roof.
Six years later, sponsored by a family at a church in Granby, Mass., he would enter college out west and move on to an engineering career.
His story is one of faith, determination and talent.
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