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Precious Cargo

by ssds2017 | Jul 27, 2021

<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Pres. Gerald Ford directed financing for air transport of Operation Babylift in 1975 which resulted in the evacuation of more than 3,300 children at the end of the Vietnam War.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Adoptee Saul Tran Cornwall was known as Tran La when staff at Holt International first encountered him. As a social worker, he has since helped a new generation of adoptees adjust to American culture.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Jodi White was born Ho Bich Ngoc in 1972 in Vung Tau. Photo courtesy of Jodi Lee White Brooks.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Lee Stefin in Vietnam, in 1974, where she was known as Deang Thi Hiep. Lee was the oldest adoptee on the trip and the only one who knew her mother. In Vietnam she was known as Dang Thi Hiep.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Returning adoptees Kara Delahunt and Saul Tran Cornwall arrived in Saigon hoping to visit their own birth places.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Jodi White was adopted by a Texas couple but never forgot where she came from, which was Vung Tau, a beach resort on the coast.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Todd Adamson, a polio victim, enjoyed interacting with babies in the orphanage where he was left as an infant 29 years ago.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Patricia Snider and Jodi Lee White Brooks found comfort with a new generation of adoptees at the orphanages where they were left. </span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Nuns cared for Patricia as she learned to walk with crutches more than two decades ago. Several, including a nurse, remembered her.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Editor Nicole Domenici, Producer Pham Quoc Thai, and Director/Producer Janet Gardner take a break during editing.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Elizabeth Sowles and her adoptive parents pose for a family photo at home in Portland, Oregon.</span>

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