Fall of South Vietnam at 50: A cautionary reminder for South Korea

Adoptees who arrived in Australia in cardboard boxes looking for families

Elizabeth Wray and Rohan Samara are two of the thousands of children evacuated from Vietnam at the fall of Saigon 50 years ago as part of Operation Babylift. They're embarking on a quest to find their biological families.

Fall of South Vietnam at 50: A cautionary reminder for South Korea

On April 30, 1975, the world watched with disbelief and sorrow as Saigon fell to the advancing North Vietnamese army. In mere hours, the Republic of Vietnam — South Vietnam — ceased to exist. Helicopt...

What my mother carried: A refugee story of courage, 50 years after the fall of Saigon

On Mother’s Day and to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, writer Erin Loury reflects on her Vietnamese family’s harrowing escape from war-torn Vietnam and the life they built in the United States. Now a new mother herself, Loury contemplates the dual legacies of survival and resilience passed down to her son — and the importance of sharing her family’s refugee story without passing down its trauma. The post What my mother carried: …