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A new memorial will honor those in the Hmong community who served in the Vietnam War. An airshow and fundraiser will be held this weekend, and FOX 9’s Rob Olson has the latest on the efforts.
The CIA-organized group of Hmong men and children in Laos to fight during the Vietnam War is known as the "Secret Army," and their participation was called the Secret War or CIA War, where the Secret War is meant to denote the Laotian Civil War (1960–1975) and the Laotian front of the Vietnam War.
During the Vietnam War, the Americans operated a secret radar station; Site 85, situated 15 miles from the North Vietnamese border atop one of the highest mountains in Laos. Crucially it gave American bombers the ability to attack in all weather, a critical capability during the Rolling Thunder bombing campaign. The North Vietnamese got wise!