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Vang Pao (Hmong: ''Vaj Pov''; 8 December 1929 – 6 January 2011) was a Major General in the Royal Lao Army.〔 〕 He was a leader in the Hmong American community in the United States. ==Early life== Vang, an ethnic Hmong, was born on 8 December 1929, in a Hmong village named Nonghet,〔(Profile on ), Wisconsin Public Television. Retrieved 19 September 2010.〕 located in Central Xiangkhuang Province, in the northeastern region of Laos, where his father, Neng Chu Vang, was a county leader. Vang began his early life as a farmer until Japanese forces invaded and occupied French Indochina in World War II. His father sent him away to school from the age of 10 to 15〔 before he launched his military career, joining the French Military to protect fellow Hmong during the Japanese invasion. While taking an entrance examination, the captain who was the proctor realized that Vang knew almost no written French. The captain dictated the answers to Vang so he could join the army. Vang insisted the captain gave him the answers but did not actually guide his hand on the paper. Anne Fadiman, author of ''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down'', said Vang did not express any embarrassment over this cheating. Fadiman added "it is worth noting that in this incident, far from tarnishing Vang Pao's reputation — as, for example Ted Kennedy's fudged Spanish exam at Harvard University tarnished his — merely added to his mythology: this was the sort of man who could never be held back by such petty impediments as rules."〔Fadiman, Anne. (''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down'' ), Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1997; p. 129.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vang Pao」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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