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Remembering the Fall of Saigon and Vietnam’s Mass ‘Boat People’ Exodus

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On April 30, 1975, American troops withdrew from Saigon as the city fell to the North Vietnamese. One refugee remembers the chaos of the day and her long odyssey to freedom.

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