The lucky ones were picked up by the US Navy, some made land somewhere, many were victims of pirates and many disappeared.
Death at sea was a better fate that what was in store in the socialist paradise.
Ironically, I had a Vietnamese gf here in the 1990’s who’s family did just that. It was bonechilling to listen to them tell the story of escape in a brother’s boat, not knowing what was going to happen. Fortunately Ford had dispatched US ships to search for refugees and they were rescued.
My gf was in Canada at the time and went for a long while not knowing what happened to her family.
“Can you imagine piling into a little boat and heading out to sea, to anywhere else because, because you knew what the evil bastards were going to do to you and yours and anything was better than that? The lucky ones were picked up by the US Navy, some made land somewhere, many were victims of pirates and many disappeared.”
Death at sea was a better fate that what was in store in the socialist paradise.”
We know two young Viet Namese Ladies in their late 30’s. They don’t remember their parents escaping Nam with them and other family members and heading to sea in small boats. They have heard their parents and older relatives tell about those horrible times.
Apparently their families and they were picked up at sea, and they ended up in California. None of their relatives nor they ever were on welfare.
Last year one of the young ladies went back to Nam to visit relatives, who didn’t escape. She doesn’t want to talk about it, but she had some severe health problems after her trip. We feel that she had some type of PTS triggered by her trip back. She will not go back as long as the communists are still in charge.