• otterpop@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    They didn’t bomb the runway until after operation babylift was completed, so your edit is false, although I don’t disagree that at least for roughly 25% of the children who were fathered by Americans, they should have been evacuated. Amerasian children faced extreme discrimination and racism after the war in Vietnam, so much so that eventually America made the Amerasian Homecoming Act.