Draft:Hmong Veterans' Service Recognition Act


The Hmong Veterans' Service Recognition Act was passed into law in 2018. It represents long overdue recognition of sacrifices that were made by Hmong veterans in the Vietnam War, where they could be putting their lives at risk along with their families. The Hmong people served and helped the United States in covert operations, which would later become known as the "Secret War" in Laos. Although the Act granted dignity in death to these veterans with in-ground burials in US national cemeteries, this also represents the very long struggle for recognition of so many ethnic and immigrant communities that lost their lives with American forces.