[( The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam )] [by: Dana Sachs] [Jul-2011]
The Life We Were Given In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U.S. government launched "Operation Babylift," a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children and place them with adoptive families overseas. Chaotic from start to finish, the mission gripped the world-with a traumatic plane crash, international media snapping pictures of bewildered children traveling to t... Full description