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When the Heart Cries But Never Breaks: A Novel Set in Vietnam 1975-1979

When the Heart Cries But Never Breaks: A Novel Set in Vietnam 1975-1979

Nguyen, Duyen

Paperback

Vietnam War

ISBN10: 1937592537
ISBN13: 9781937592530
Publisher: Escrire
Published: Sep 12 2016
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

When the evacuation is ordered, the signal will be read on Armed Forces Radio. That signal is: 'The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising.' This will be followed by the playing of, I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.

That announcement triggered Operation Frequent Wind, the almost unbelievable evacuation plan executed by United States forces on the 29th and 30th of April, 1975 when more than 7,000 people were evacuated by helicopter from various points in Saigon. The total number of Vietnamese evacuated or self-evacuated, ending up in the custody of the United States for processing as refugees to enter the country, totaled 138,869. But hundreds of thousands were left behind that then faced 're-education' by the victors. The re-education camps, modeled on Soviet Gulags (and in some cases operated similarly as a Nazi concentration camp) soon became full. The New Economic Zone programs announced were thinly veiled justification for the confiscation of all assets held by the South Vietnamese people.

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