Escaping war, riding life: Quang Nguyen’s long road to the Legislature

Escaping war, riding life: Quang Nguyen’s long road to the Legislature

Growing up in South Vietnam during the 1970s, Rep. Quang Nguyen recognized the threat his country’s neighbor — North Vietnam — presented to his home. Six days before the April 30, 1975, fall of Saigon, Nguyen’s father, who served in the South Vietnamese army, packed up Nguyen and his older brother and drove them to an airfield in a jeep gifted to their family by troops Nguyen’s father had served with. Had he stayed in the country a week longer, …