Richard

How do you look back on that now?

those older people in the bolo who reached out to you and were happy to have you with them a lot of older people then they're from a different generation they might have seen stuff that people who'd grown up in more prosperous times wouldn't have seen what do you see in them that's worth remembering i think what's worth emulating what qualities do you like about those people

Ran, it's been wonderful to speak with you.

Thank you very much for sharing your story.

Good morning.

Everyone that works here, they've got a smile on their face.

They're like family.

And the warmth and the empathy that the staff showed, come and ask if there's anything you could do for me.

You know, you can't put dollars on that.

I'm worried what's going to happen to them because they're wonderful people and they don't deserve that.

You have to pay insurance, car, pay rent, food.

On the internet, there's this video.

It's from the early 1980s and it's shot by an international medical group called Médecins du Monde, Doctors of the World.

And it shows the rescue at sea of an overcrowded boat of Vietnamese refugees, families of men and women and children.

And the boat's been on the South China Sea for some three days.

It's been tossed by storms.

And the boat's filled with a whole lot of people, many of whom had never even seen the sea before.

Many of the people on board look either catatonic or beside themselves with terror.

And it's amazing to watch the transformation of those people as they're pulled onto the larger boat and they begin to allow themselves to hope once more.

Anne Nguyen-Austen was one of the kids on that boat.