Australian-Vietnamese adoptees ongoing search for family 50 years on from the Vietnam War

Remembering Fire in the Lake: Some Lessons From the War

“The French and the Americans tried to stop the revolution, and in doing so they created an interregnum of violence unparalleled in Vietnamese history.”—Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake I understand that the lessons that any one of us may have learned from the long American War in Viet Nam depend entirely upon where you […] Source

Australian-Vietnamese adoptees ongoing search for family 50 years on from the Vietnam War

As the world marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War, a group of adoptees who were taken out of the country prior to 1975, are racing against time to find the mothers they were separated from. An event spearheaded by Australian-Vietnamese adoptees saw a group embark on a bike ride to raise money for elderly Vietnamese residents and spread awareness of their ongoing search for family.

At the end of the war, the Americans displaced more than 3,000 children, who were later adopted in North America, Europe, or Australia. Vietnam celebrates this Wednesday the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon (currently Ho Chi Minh City), which marked the victory of the communist North over the pro-American South. Fifty years after the chaotic evacuation of Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1959 to 1975, thousand…