Vinh Chung was born after the fall of Saigon in 1975. His family was quite wealthy they owned a rice mill business, but soon the communists took over and started controlling people leaving no option but to flee. In 1979, they joined a boat jammed with ninety-three refugees. They were traveling from the Mekong River to the South China Sea. They faced a setback, the ship made it to a Malaysian beach, but instead of offering asylum, they were held at gunpoint and brutally beat the refugees. They were put back out in a smaller boat, with the blazing sun on the family his parents considered throwing their children overboard rather than watching them suffer. A couple of days after, the family saw a boat. It was the World Vision freighter Seasweep, the first international rescue ship to provide medical care to stranded refugees they took 93 people on board that day. The refugees then were transported camps in Singapore. An Arkansas church sponsored the family and made the process faster. With nothing but the clothes on their backs and unable no knowledge of English. Chung’s family faced obstacles: poverty, discrimination, and a language barrier. His parents worked continuously to provide a home for their children. As time went by, the children helped their parents break barriers. Vinh was an all-state football player, valedictorian of his class, and was off to Harvard to study in the medical field.