Megan Khang accepts that there will always be gaps in her family story. Survivors of war often paint their experiences with a roller instead of a delicate brush. Like many survivors, the Khangs, who saw their relatives and friends brutalized, imprisoned and murdered in the late stages of the CIA’s secret war in their home country of Laos, never shared a lot of details. All that 23-year-old Megan, who was born in Massachusetts, knows is that “My parents at a young age, there was the war going on, and the Hmong people had helped the Americans, so they were offered asylum. My parents were lucky enough to be a part of that. They had different journeys getting to Thailand, because that was how they got to the United States, through Thailand.”

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