Hmong Refugee Finds Long Lost Cousin in Laos 

Wow. I have high respect for his wife and son. I am speechless and cry with happy tears at the same times because most of us left our loves one behind. I hope someday I will find my siblings. I left my family since I was two days old.

What touched me most is you speaking Hmong to your aunt.

This is very touching. I’m happy for your father to have found his family and for you to gain more relatives. My parents went back to Laos to visit their old village and where they grew up and it’s all jungles and graves now. War is such a disease and the innocent pays the price.

Thanks for showing us your family’s journey. It’s great that you can speak and read Hmong. My kids are fully Hmong and we’ve tried to teach them but English is so natural to them. Love it when you speak Hmong!

Had me in tears. This was wonderful.

The loyalty, the importance of family is what makes this story important.

Is to commend his mother that even she is not Hmong made sure the son learned the language and his roots. Important in any marriage of people from different cultures, countries.

@ 6:41 to 7:15, I felt her sadness through her voice. Koj niam hlob hais tau tu siab kawg 😢.

It brings tears to my eyes because I am like your father too. Lost a lot of my family’s members during the war.

Thank you for this. My soul needed to see and hear this today.

This is so heart warming but so sad.

Awesome story! Gald your father found his long lost cousin. May God bless the ones that we all left behind in the old country!

Great video log! Thanks for documenting this journey and reunion for your family and I'm happy that your dad was able to re-connect after so many years.

it's crazy that you speak fluent English. As a Hmong American who speaks only two languages I am always envious of foreign born people who can speak like 3 languages. I made friends with a Hmong French girl who spoke fluent English, Hmong, French, and Japanese lol

Glad to see your dad found his brother after all these years. You have a great voice for narrating! Thanks for sharing.

This was an amazing watch thanks for recording and sharing with us viewers.

Thanks for sharing. It's very informative. God bless you and your family.

Very touching when they haven’t see each other for so many years. Glad your dad found his cousin.

What a journey. Glad your dad found his cousin. Awesome story. I still need to do mine. 🙏

Good time to fond lost brother..congratulations

A journey that will open your eyes and change the way of life forever. Beautiful story

Amazing story ...never forget your families ..Your father done the right ..by not forgetting family ...Thanks for sharing..

So happy to know that you as the son can speak Hmong so good. Your story is not so much different from our stories.............

It's great that you know how to speak Hmong. Cherish it and teach the language to your children. Thank you for sharing your story with us❤

Thanks for sharing.

Very nice video.... thanks good he finally found lost cousin

what a great reunion for both parties!!!

Amazing!

Thank you for sharing your reunion journey with us. It brought me to tears. How torn apart families were from the war, and being able to reunite after so long.

Dang ..! Love ur families stories for me tears up we have similar life stories came from the same motherland I hope someday I would find my ways back home .. ❤ thanks for sharing

Nej cov hmong Asmesliskas no tseem hais lus fab kis meej kawg laiv yom

What a touching story!!

Happy to see the family all together brother

Great video, the Hmong culture is very beautiful once you understand it.

Zoo kaws os s tij, Bless you and your family 😇🙏🏻✌🏻

It is very nice to find and meet your relatives even for so many years.

Perfect video I like it.

Nrog nej sawv daws zoo siab kawg li os.

Thank you for the video. Like many Hmong, we all share similar family stories and history. After the fall of Laos, my father made the long and dangerous trip to Thailand on foot, swimming across the Mekong River into freedom. He had to leave his family behind. After 15 years in the US, he was able to sponsor his mother, brother and sister. Sadly his father passed away in the mid 80s, so I never got to know my grandfather. My grandmother passed away about a year ago but at least she was able to live the last 25+ years with family. Anyway, we the current generation of Hmong must continue sharing our family stories and history. We are here today because of the sacrifices made by those before us.

This video brought me tears of joy because I also have families in Laos that I haven't met in years because I left Laos when I was a baby. You speak Hmong so well lol. Did you take hmong class? Or your Dad taught you to speak hmong? And where are you from? Glad that your Dad found his family ❤

Wonderful!!

Good video….THIS is how things should be documented.

Congrats good to back to find ur cousin

Very touching story.

Congratulations 🎊 they're found each other for more than 40 yrs...

I’m not that kind of cry person, but today I seen this video I’m crying watching it

So happy for you.

Wow....I'm very happy that your dad found his brother. Thanks for sharing.

This is the beauty of being Hmong.

Nej kuj mus tau lom zem kawg os tij liaj tsua

Thai story is so beautiful! Not a lot of mix Hmong French kids can speak Hmong. So glad you found your cousin!! 😉 just realize you’re NOU’s husband. Cool!

Thanks for sharing..you should have a interview with your dad and talk about his experience and what he’s been through

Excellent documentary and the detail of the Hmong heritage. Thanks for sharing!

That's totally awesome. It was quite the adventure there. Glad everything fell into place. Much love n respect. ✌️

My story come in ohiousa in 1980...we still speaker 🇱🇦 around our friends..i a O.G. now.2023..

😢😢😢I cried

Crying with happy tears

Vous avez faire des très longue chemin pour les trouvers vous êtes très généreux mon frère.

Your video clip made me cried as I have left my two sisters behind in Laos. Thank you so much for sharing your video.

Zoo siab nrog nej sib nrhiav tau es nrig nej los2 kua muag kawg li os.

It took me forty four years to get back there; crossed the bridge of Hin Heu in foot with my older brother reminding us that that bridge gave us freedom..!!

Good JOB my Nephew

Thank you for sharing brother. It is imperative to retrace our roots and reconnect. Understand where we come from and cherish every second of life. God bless you!

Wow those are my parents, now they are also in America, this video must be recorded for a very long time ago at lease 3 years I think

zoo siab pom koj rov qab mus hriav tau kj tus tij laug lawm os ..happy or you an your family.. kv yog blooj tooj vas os..

Aww this is priceless moment 😢 And amazed the wife and sons speak Hmong ❤️ so happy your family is reunited 🥰

🎉very sad story 😢

I’m literally balling my eyes out. No matter where our loved ones live, we will always find them if we keep trying.

no disrespect, but I didn't think your Hmong speaking wasn't gonna be that fluent but good job with all respect and love all your videos. do more video with you speaking in Hmong

Great story brother. Keep it up.

Nyob zoo os. I’m so happy for them both. I didn’t a similar documentary of reuniting with my biological father after 33yrs in 2018. We the Hmong people still have so many missing family members during the war. Thanks for this inspirational video to encourage others to keep searching. Hmong strong 💪

That was good bro! Had me in tears!

It's a very emotional video, I cried watching it because I still have cousins back in Laos too.

Nice video bro I like ur voice lol good story teller.

I'm so glad you gotten the chance to experience and see what life is like back in the mother land. I think it is nice that most of the younger generation would have experience what you experience so they can appreciate how wonderful and lucky they are to be in USA. I do also want to maybe one day to give my children to experience the same. Great video and thank you for sharing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

That's what love is. I'm so I happy for you that you have found your cousins, even though had been long time. Everyone's of us had almost the same story.

A good trip come with a great story….!

Wow how many language does your dad speak? He seems very educated for his age and and his early days.

❤❤❤❤❤

😢😢😢

I love how calm your dad's voice is when speaking hmong.

Sad story

émouvant comme vidéo, belles retrouvailles

I understand you live in France. I am amazed at how well you can speak Hmong and your mom too? The credit goes to your dad who taught your guys to speak Hmong.

Gosh so emotional!! You speak Hmoob so well! If I see you, I wouldn’t guess that you were hmoob too. Thank you for sharing!

Wow his son know more hmong then my owns kids😂

Nias rau koj lm nawb nias rov rau kuv thiab os py 👉👉🔔🙏

Looks like you got a good experience from all of this. I'm glad. Most people whom goes overseas without a good guide usually ends up bumping into unwanted behavior or end up being lucky enough not to experience anything crazy. The old generation of Hmong tourist especially the bad ones are slowly weeding out. OGs use to go over there and create a bad name for us hmong tourist and those overseas would get use to categorizing all hmong tourist the same.......that we only go over there to take advantage of them. But over the years, I think i see the narrative changing. Especially now that some of the younger hmong generation are making a difference overseas. Soon.....hopefully their will be less of a love and hate gap between hmong Americans, hmong french and those overseas

Well put video my big brother

Geography and distance won't stop family coming together. Happy for your family. Question: why is it that your parents speak French and you speak English?

the U.S should definitely open a program to reconnect families that have been disconnected because of the war

so touching I love my Hmong

Very Good stories brother I’m Hmong n we are too in same boat more videos please

Amazing storytelling brother. You and your pops fit in perfectly the next day when they were butchering the pig. Watching this made me think about how fast the Hmong culture and language is being lost. My baby brother doesn’t speak a lick of Hmong 😂 and I think he barely understands lol😂. Love watching your stuff with your pops.

His wife owes it to him, she married him knowing this is his past and that one day he’d want to go back good for them

It sound that your family was France to visit Laos but you spoke English pretty good. It's good that you are trilanguage.

In 2002 I I went to visit Laos, especially, KM 52, Vientiane, and 516 for a fiance. I got really sock... TSIS MUAJ I TUG neeg txheeb ze thiab PAUB uas tsis HAIS TUA npua thiab nyuj los sis twm (water buffalo) hu yus plig Nrog UA 1 pluas mov KHI hlua tes... txaus TU SIAB KAWG nkaus... Twb tsis TUA QAIB hu yus lub nad. YOG kuv tus finance tsis tu kuv thiab SAIB xyuas kuv... Kuv tsis MUAJ leej twg mas txhawj kawg nkaus thiab NTSHAI tuav plig rawd tsam rov los TSIS txog USA TIAG.

Omg! 🥲🥲

Hmong ppl are good❤ppl

I am deeply sad and emotional about your situation.