John,
Knock, knock, knock.
It’s the scariest sound you’ll hear when you live in a communist country.
It’s the last sound my parents heard when their fathers were taken away.
It’s the sound of always living in fear, and it’s my family’s real-life story.
We escaped from Vietnam just days before Saigon fell to the communists, and we were given a new life in the most generous country on Earth.
My name is Hung Cao, and America saved my life.
From a young age, I knew I wanted to pay back this country for all it had done for me. I graduated from the United States Naval Academy and served for 25 years in Navy Special Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
Now, today, I’m the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Virginia.
Only in America can a little boy who fled communism grow up to address the Republican National Convention, but today, I stood on the stage and told my story.
