Twenty yards down the riverbank, a cluster of Vietnamese children were throwing rocks into the river.
She hasn't married to date, but she adopted two Vietnamese children.
A Vietnamese child also died last year when his asthma went undetected.
Some 50 percent of Vietnamese children go on to college and 10 percent enroll in technical courses.
Vietnamese children were admitted also, if they could pass an entrance examination, tailored to their age and grade level.
Hidden among 330 cannabis plants was a small Vietnamese child.
One local authority admitted to campaigners it recently lost more than 20 Vietnamese children inside 24 hours.
A restricted government document revealed last year that, nationwide, 48% of Vietnamese children in care had disappeared.
There are pictures of suffering that should never have been taken - notably the famous shot of the Vietnamese child on fire.
They relocated to Iowa in 1980 where, with the addition of four more children and a Vietnamese foster child, their family grew to eight.