1991—The Sens

…continued As if we hadn’t already received our share of blessings, Valerie and I had the honor of driving the Sens down to the Washington, D.C. Temple to be sealed together as a family, the first members of my branch to take this important step. The Lynn Asian Branch, as it was called by this time, included few intact families: Pol Pot had seen to that. This sweet refugee family had made it to the United States through horrific trials, which three sons (if I recall correctly) had not survived. On Sen, Kan Sam, Vann Sen, and Oeun Sen, on the Washington, D.C. Temple grounds.

Quiet, intelligent, young Chanthan Sang (he would later marry the lovely On Sen in the same temple) got up once in our meeting and thanked the congregation for being his new family. He’d lost his first one, said he, when the Khmer Rouge lined them up by a trench and machine-gunned them in the back. He survived only because his grandfather pushed him in, before falling on top of him. He played ’possum ’til dark, then made his way across the mountains into Thailand.

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