Hmong Vietnam War Vets Fight for Full Military Burials By Emil Guillermo 11/11/2014 In the 1960s and 70s, the CIA recruited Vang Pao to organize a Hmong fighting force to join America’s “secret war” against the North Vietnamese in Laos. When the war ended, 35,000 Hmong soldiers died, according to Rep. Jim Costa, (D-Fresno). The […]