Horrors Starvation: Waterloo Region and Grim-Faced Pirate

horrors starvation: He'd lost Connie forever, Hung worried, according to The Waterloo Record. Thirty-six years ago, the calm, flat waters of the Gulf of Thailand held lurking horrors — starvation, dehydration, sickness and robbers — for families trying to flee Communist Vietnam in flimsy little boats hoping for more freedom and a better life elsewhere. A grim-faced pirate stepped toward him, unlocked Nguyen grip on his terrified daughter and ripped the confused four-year-old from her father desperate grasp. Hung and his young family were no different on their Ides of March journey of two days and three nights on open waters that eventually led them to a prosperous life in Waterloo Region via the Songkhla and Phanat Nikhom refugee camps in Thailand. A month ago, a tidal wave of memories washed over Hung, now 59, as he returned home to Saigon to visit his ailing mother. The past is full of pirates and peril. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.