The fall of Saigon: How a young boy fled Vietnam and became a US Marine - Reserve & National Guard

The fall of Saigon: How a young boy fled Vietnam and became a US Marine - Reserve & National Guard

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…