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This is a true story of one person’s struggle to survive those time—life in the “prison without walls,” a daring escape, guerrilla fighting to free his people and the love of a family he put above all else. This story shines with powerful spirit as Peter Sareth Pen captures—as no one else can—the reality of life in the Killing Fields.“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Peter Pen’s life story reminds us that, although all men may indeed be created equal, the cost associated with pursuing happiness is not equal. In many places around the world, this unalienable right remains just a dream. His devotion to helping abused and neglected kids demonstrates that even though happiness is sometimes not so self-evident, there is still hope.
About the author:
Peter Pen was born in Cambodia in 1952, just as the French colony wrestled it sovereignty out from under France’s control. A monsoon ravaged the village the night his mother gave birth to him in a tiny dirtfloor hut. She felt like a powerful spirit was coming.
The son of poor rice farmers, he was the only child out of nine to go to school. People saw a promise in him. They called him the lucky child: “Khmeng Mean Samnang.”
He left home at eleven to continue school so he could become a teacher. But after finishing high school, he traded his books for an M-16 to fight in the bloody civil war against the Communist Vietcong and Khmer Rouge. Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975. Peter Pen became one of millions of Cambodians sent to live or die in the Killing Fields.
For additional information about the book:
- Title: "Escape to America", a true story of Peter Sareth Pen
- Author: Peter Sareth Pen
- Published by Publish America
- Available at: www.publishamerica.net
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