Saigon was falling. President Ford was playing golf.

Saigon was falling. President Ford was playing golf.

As the situation in Vietnam was deteriorating, President Ford could be found hitting the links.

The Marines from Massachusetts who were among the last to leave Saigon

Two Marines from Massachusetts — among the last remaining soldiers in Saigon — recall the tense evacuation effort and how the city fell to communist forces in late April 1975.

The fall of Saigon: How a young boy fled Vietnam and became a US Marine - History - Military Families

Nine days before North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon on April 30, 1975, a 10-year-old boy and his family fled the capital city of South Vietnam in the middle of the night.  “We left our dog behind,” Quang X. Pham said in a recent interview, recalling the last memory of his childhood home. “He barked, he barked, and that was it.” After evacuating Saigon and settling in the United States, Pham would go on to become the second Vietnamese Americ…