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LANCASTER, Pa (AP) — As they did five years ago, thousands of persons fleeing their homeland soon will be arriving at Fort Indiantown Gap for temporary resettlement. This time, however, the arrivals are Cubans, not Vietnamese. The plan is the same — to provide shelter, food and medi cine for up to six months until sponsors are found for the new immigrants so they can move into the mainstream of American life. And while personnel at the military base prepare for Sunday's first arrivals, several Vietnamese children who per manently settled nearby with families five years ago continue their struggle for a better hile. It was not easy at first for the children or the families 7-year-old Kinder Jo Bomberger refused to speak for two months, angry about something she wouldn't divulge. Suzanne Louise Hauber was ill. Doctors told her adopting mother not to get too attached to the frail child, because she wouldn't hive. Hillary Kim-Ngai Emrich and Page Hong-Ngai Emrich refused to sleep in beds and clinbed over furniture. Adele Huong- Nagi Emrich cried every night from her arrival in April 1975 until August, Stephen Sachs wasn't even supposed to come to the United States. At 11, he was too old and too crippled by polio, but he was too pitiful to be turned back after he crawled aboard the bus taking children from the Vietnamese orphanage. Before Saigon fell on April 29, 1975, An Lac Orphanage was often crowded with as many as 1,000 homeless children. The orphanage’s founder, Madame Vu Thi Nya, and Betty Tisdale of Columbus, Ga., organized “Operation Babylift,” which despite the opposition of the Vatican and some Americans managed to bring approximately 2,000 children to this country Finding adoptive parents for the children was easy, compared to the problems the families faced in the ensuing months. ‘She was furious at us when we first met her,”’ said Mrs. Henry Bomberger Jr. of her adopted daughter, Kinder. ‘She wouldn't even look at us. For two months, she wouldn't even speak Vietnamese.” It took a year for the Bambergers to discover the cause of Kinder’s anger, and then they were told by other Vietnamese children living in Lancaster. “Her mother had worked at An Lac, and she put her (Kinder) on the bus with the other Anzac Children,’ Mrs. Bamberger said. “Kinder didn't understand she was going away forever. When she got here, she felt very deceived, very angry. Suzy Hauber was only 14 months old when she arrived in the home of George and Patricia Hauber. Suzy had whooping cough, bronchitis and pneumonia and had to be fed intravenously through her nose. “I think at the time the Lord gave me a blindness,”’ said Mrs. Hauber. “I didn’t see how bad she really was.”’ Now the Haubers are hoping that Suzy won't need her crutches when she starts kindergarten next fall. The three Emrich sisters have adjusted to American life and Stephen Sachs has learned to walk with metal crutches.
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Honesdale Wayne Independent
Honesdale, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, May 17, 1980
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