Thai-Amerikan tar plats i USA,s kongress.

[Guest Isan Lover]

Hej

Ms Ladda Tammy Duckworth blir den första som är född i Thailand och tar plats i kongressen och det för Demokraterna, hennes historia är väldigt speciell, hon föddes i Bangkok och är 41 år, hon gjorde precis som sin far och dennes familj militär karriär, och detta tog sin början redan under sina studier vid George Washington University, den 12 november 2004 förlorade hon båda sina ben i Irak när den helikopter (UH-60 Black Hawk) som hon framförde träffades av en granat, hon lyckades ändå landa den innan hon svimmade av blodförlust, och nu tar hon alltså plats i kongressen, grattis till både henne och Thailand.

Thai-American wins seat in Congress

PM hails US poll result

• Published: 8/11/2012 at 12:47 AM

• Online news: Local News

Voters in Illinois, the home state of President Barack Obama, have elected the first person of Thai origin to the US Congress.

Bangkok-born Ladda Tammy Duckworth got props from Illinois state voters after her victory, and PM Yingluck Shinawatra fired off congratulations to President Barack Obama on his re-election.

Ladda Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran born in Thailand, defeated a conservative lawmaker from the Tea Party in a closely watched election for the lower House of Representatives in Schaumburg, a district near Chicago.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has congratulated US President Barack Obama on winning a second term - and Ms Ladda for her achievement.

Ms Ladda, who lost most of both of her legs in Iraq, defeated first-term Republican congressman Joe Walsh who raised hackles by saying during his campaign that abortion was never necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.

"I feel fantastic," said Ms Ladda, who was defeated in her first attempt to win a seat in Congress in 2010. Ms Ladda, more popularly known as Tammy, is a member of Mr Obama's Democratic Party.

She will officially assume her new position as a US member of Congress on Jan 3.

Born in Bangkok, the 41-year-old war veteran is the daughter of Frank Duckworth, a marine turned diplomat, and Lamai Sompornpairin.

She joined the US military while in graduate school at George Washington University.

Ms Ladda lost both her legs on Nov 12, 2004 when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting.

She managed to help land it before passing out from blood loss.

In an interview with the Bangkok Post in 2006, Ms Ladda said she "neither planned to be a military officer nor a politician, although my father's family members have all served in the military".

She dreamed as a young girl of becoming an ambassador. "Diplomacy is an important tool," she said.

The helicopter crash changed her attitude to life. "Life is not about acquiring more conveniences for yourself or to worry about small things that you might not have or achieve," she said.

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Mvh Isan lover

[Guest Siam-Nilsson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfXoRPlmYo8

[bob]

Det finns tydligen en liten (hoppas jag) grupp thailandare som spyr galla på denna dam pga hennes mors bakgrund… sjalv så anser jag "what happens in the past stays in the past…"

bob

[audirs2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfXoRPlmYo8

En karma poäng minst till tuffa damen Tammy! Jag menar följande, en kula kan avfyras lika fort och precist av en kvinna som av en man!

[Guest Siam-Nilsson]

Det finns tydligen en liten (hoppas jag) grupp thailandare som spyr galla på denna dam pga hennes mors bakgrund… sjalv så anser jag "what happens in the past stays in the past…"

bob

Knepigt att det finns stollar som tycker att barn ska stå till svars för vad eventuellt deras föräldrar har gjort i sin ungdom.

[Khun Ken]

Wohps. Jag trodde Thailand blivit kvitt Jatuporn. Men nej han är som ett "superklister" inte lätt att bli av med, men han äter väl ihjäl sig i en snar framtid.