Post by Tex on Mar 12, 2005 9:01:45 GMT -6
We finally saw this last night. This hit close to home with my wife. (her mother took her and her brother to the US embassy the day Saigon fell and tried to get in with a special military pass - to no avail - too late). A beautiful show - even with a few cultural glitches (like showing xiclos in Bankok - the Thais liked Tuk-Tuks).
If you ever see a reporter on CNN named Betty Nguyen, she has an interesting story. She is half-Vietnamese, half American. In 1975, she was a baby. The South Vietnamese air crew at Tan Son Nhut threw her in the back of the last C-130 out of Saigon. Her mother held on the cargo nets with one arm and her with the other. The communists were coming through the front gate as they were loading. They tried to block the runway during the takeoff roll but were unsuccessful. She was a TV anchor in Waco, TX then Dallas and the last time I saw her, she was on CNN.
The show is touching to most but has particularly meaning to a Vietnamese of that era.
If you ever see a reporter on CNN named Betty Nguyen, she has an interesting story. She is half-Vietnamese, half American. In 1975, she was a baby. The South Vietnamese air crew at Tan Son Nhut threw her in the back of the last C-130 out of Saigon. Her mother held on the cargo nets with one arm and her with the other. The communists were coming through the front gate as they were loading. They tried to block the runway during the takeoff roll but were unsuccessful. She was a TV anchor in Waco, TX then Dallas and the last time I saw her, she was on CNN.
The show is touching to most but has particularly meaning to a Vietnamese of that era.