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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/the_long_road_from_vietnam_to_tiens_place/2073/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: COLUMBIA FALLS – After escaping from communist Vietnam in a crowded fishing boat at night, Tien Pham Windauer and 49 other kids floundered in the Gulf of Thailand for four foodless days, occasionally gathering enough rain for drinking water. When the Malaysian coast guard picked them up, Windauer was nearly too sick to move. Then, a few months later, he found himself on an airplane headed for some strange place in America called Columbia Falls, a trip nearly as disorienting as the boat escape.