katie ortiz sits down with one of those people. >>mone: that's our first christmas picture. >>katie: images full of love and smiling family membersang throughout mone aye's house. but something as simple as a photograph, a tangible memory, used to be a luxury for her. this picture was the only one she ever had growing up. she was born in a refugee camp in thailand and would spend summers worrying if she e uld be bombed. she saw that worry come true when she was just 5 years old. >>mone: my a5nt just like pulled me by the hand and then we just like ran. we have to like climb up on the mountain, hiding by the cliff looking down the hill we still can see our house was like burning. >>katie: at the age of 19, mone and her family came to iowa. but it wasn't a quick getaway. i i took more than a year of interviews, paperwork, background and medical checks through the unitit nations to travel as a legal refugee. >>mone: i'like blessed. i'm lucky enough to like come here and now we, i have like a house that i can call my home. i can, i have my own car and have my career and my job th