New park in Merced to honor iconic Hmong leader

General Vang Pao was an iconic fig successful the section and nationalist Hmong community.

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A caller parkland successful Merced volition grant a beloved precocious person of the Hmong community.

A motion adjacent the Stonefield Home Bellevue Ranch lodging improvement says "Future location of General Vang Pao Park."

It's astatine the country of Cardella Road and Freemark Avenue successful Merced.

The General passed distant successful 2011 astatine the property of 81. He and his household lived successful Fresno.

General Vang Pao was an iconic fig successful the section and nationalist Hmong community.

He was besides a cardinal US state during the Vietnam War, starring a radical of CIA-trained troops to assistance the United States.