Mr. Yer Vue
"Yang Shao Vue"
SGU Veteran
Brooklyn Park, MN
File No.: 29/50
June 2024

Yer Yangshao Vue came from a family with a strong military background. In 1964, he began his military career in the militia program called Auto Defense de Choc (ADC) in the Mouang Moc region of Laos. Since they lived close to the Vietnam border, he feared that the North Vietnamese Army would soon come to take their lands. By 1965, he was recruited as an SGU soldier and worked closely under his adopted father, Lt. Col. Chong Kua Vue. Vue was the regiment commander of the Group Mobile (GM) 25. Yer was a fearless soldier who had been on many combat and rescue missions. He was lucky to live as he was wounded four times on these deployments until the Secret War folded to the communist side in 1975. As the communist troops were rounding up CIA-backed SGU soldiers, Yer joined the resistance forces that resided in the Phou Bia region. By 1978, these groups, with depleted resources, could no longer resist enemy attacks. Yer and his family and 200 other Hmong crossed the Mekong River to seek political asylum in Thailand. In 1979, he and his family immigrated to Seattle, Washington. He moved to Minnesota because of family and better employment opportunities. ∆

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