50 Years After the U.S. Left Vietnam, Another Retreat Is Shaking Asia
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 1, 2025
Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a chopper that took off from a roof in the mission.
“My last view of Saigon was through the tail door of the helicopter,” he wrote in the Chicago Daily News. “Then the door closed — closed on the most humiliating chapter in American history.”
My father believed in the domino theory, how a cascade of Communism might deluge Asia. A . . .
