FALL RIVER – The sight of his cancer-stricken mother-in-law sleeping on a floor in Vietnam motivated David Nguyen to go into the bedding business.
That was three decades ago, and since then the owner of US Bedding in Fall River has positioned himself to be one of the major bedding manufacturers on the East Coast.
Nguyen was born in 1962 in Hanoi, capital city of the former North Vietnam.
Nearly 18 years later, in late 1979, after his mother had bribed local police officials to get him phony Chinese identification documents so that Nguyen could board a small boat bound for Hong Kong with 100 other people he had only one thought in mind: making his way to the United States.