Vietnamese babies being airlifted to the US for adoption in 1975

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image showing Vietnamese babies being airlifted to the US for adoption in 1975

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Chucker1970 on May 26th, 2024 at 19:24 UTC »

My adopted brother was 3 on one of these flights in 1975. I was 5 when my family adopted him. There was worry he was on one of these flights that crashed that I believed killed all on board, but it wasn't that flight thankfully. You see movie scenes (Deer Hunter?) that take place in Saigon where there is a baby box at the end of a prostitute's bed. The mother usually gives up their baby that is too big for their box and drops them off at a place run by Holt adoptions agencies. That is what happened to my brother. His mother was Vietnamese, and his father was a black American serviceman.

When we adopted him, he hated thunderstorms (sounding like artillery) and saw him a few times drop and roll his body under a car in Colorado where we were living when commercial helicopters would fly over us in town. He eventually ended up in the Wisconsin National Guard as a Seargent and did a 10 month tour in Baghdad Iraq and currently works construction in Phoenix, AZ.