General Vang Pao died at age 81

8 of 36: Vang Seng, a 57-year-old former Hmong battalion commander, shows documents that claim he fought with CIA-backed Hmong forces led by Gen. Vang Pao, as his wife and daughter look on, in his bamboo shack Monday, June 11, 2007, at Huay Nam Khao refugee camp in Petchabun province, northeastern Thailand. For many in this squalid settlement, the name Gen. Vang Pao elicits memories of a time when the Hmong people fought encroaching communism in Laos as favored allies of the United States during the Vietnam War. Three decades later, aging and broken Hmong refugees like Vang Seng have given up have given up dreams of a free homeland, and just want to live peacefully in Thailand, where this makeshift settlement is, or to be resettled in the U.S. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

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