Letter: A Cambodian with a way out name
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Further to the correspondence about names (23 and 28 September). In 1978-79, while in San Francisco, I got involved with an agency dealing with refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. One of my jobs was to inspect the refugees' papers before putting them on their on-going flight.
A highlight was the day I processed the papers of a large Cambodian family whose seventh child had been born while they were in the transit camp, on the day when a piece of falling space mechanism landed back on earth. Somewhere in America today is a teenage boy called 'Skylab'. I often wonder how he copes with that, and what he thinks of his parents' choice.
Yours faithfully,
HILARY
Community of St Francis
Birmingham
29 September
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