Sunday, April 26, 2015

Vietnam orphans search for their roots

Via Carl

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Forty years ago this month a military C5-A transport left Saigon with orphans headed for new lives in America. But a cargo door blew out, and the plane crashed. It killed 138, including 78 children.

By the time South Vietnam fell, many more Vietnamese children had left their homeland. And now, Barry Petersen tells us, some of those children, long since grown up, are coming home: 

At the memorial service, they came to remember that terrible day in that terrible war -- the crash that killed 138 people, 78 of whom were children.

But more orphans were evacuated in the frantic last days. During the Vietnam War, some 3,000 orphans came to the U.S. Orphans like Tobi Snyder, who was barely six pounds when she came to America.

"I have a real love for life," she said. "And I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but I am a survivor. I am a fighter."

And *Stacy Meredith, given up by her mother when she was two. "As a child, you just don't understand how a parent could ever let you go," she told Petersen.

 More @ CBS

(*Being raised in the US she has adopted our values and doesn't realize/understand that Vietnamese mothers, both then and now, will gladly offer their children to someone who will in their opinion give them a better life. BT)

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2 comments:

  1. Never forget to put the blame for this debacle where it belongs. Democraps pulled the plug on this country & this is the results.

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    1. That is what started it and led to Thieu's horrible decision to abandon Pleiku taking the population which would be extremely difficult for the best armies. Then the VC/NVA purposely targeted the civilians which culminated in a rout. Even North Vietnam said that Thieu was forced to fight a poor man's war.

      By noon on March 16, a mass of humanity; troops, dependents, civilians, and deserters; was clogging the old road. Some 400,000 civilians, 60,000 ARVN, and 7,000 Rangers began the attempted escape to the sea.

      By the time that the last straggling men, women, and children had reached Tuy Hoa on the coast; 300,000 civilians, 40,000 ARVN, and 6,300 Rangers were missing, never to be accounted for.(Makes you cry)

      http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/search?q=pleiku

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