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Ly Le Hayslip was born in Ky La, Central Vietnam, in 1949. When she was 12 years old, American helicopters landed in her village. She endured torture in a South Vietnamese government prison for "revolutionary sympathies" at the age of 14. Her adolescence was torn by the Vietnam War, and she has been a victim of the horrors of the war for most of her life. She moved to San Diego, California, in 1969, and has lived in America since then. She has written the memoir "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places" (which inspired the film Heaven and Earth) and the memoir "Child of War, Woman of Peace." In 1988, she founded the "East Meets West" Foundation, which physically and emotionally helps to rebuild lives on both sides of the world. Through her foundations, she became a bridge builder by bringing American groups back to Vietnam to help restore her motherland and open the dialogue between the two nations. [Profile bio] Manny Raposo is a freshman at USC from Discovery Bay, CA Zhen Jin is a senior at USC from Westlake Village, CA Lelaina Stowell is a sophomore at USC from Washington, District of Columbia Nora Ruoxu Wang is a senior at USC from Hefei, China. [Profiler bio]
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