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May 2, 1975: Saigon had fallen to the North Vietnamese. The war was over. And Suzie Warren was at a Red Cross center, holding a six-year-old boy. He was one of 2,000 orphans flown out of Saigon as part of Operation Babylift. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
February 27, 1973: When David R. Wheat stepped off the plane in Duluth a band struck up “America the Beautiful.” He was home after seven years in a Vietnamese POW camp. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
Late 1968: Army nurse Diane Carlson was told never to remember her patients’ names. It was too hard when they died. But Eddie Lee Evenson was a kid from back home in Minnesota. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
November 13, 1968: Laszlo Rabel had to flee his native Hungary after standing up to the Soviet oppressors. Enlisting in the American army in 1965, he saw Vietnam as another opportunity to fight the communists. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
