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Home » Press Releases » Rep. Billings: Honors hometown hero
Madison – Yesterday, Representative Billings honored educator and local Hmong leader NaoHoua “Tony” Yang of La Crosse with the Assembly Hometown Hero Award. Tony was born in Laos during the Vietnam War and after enduring persecution and surviving with his family in the jungle for years, he made the journey to a refugee camp in Thailand before being granted asylum in the US. After arriving in Wisco...