By Dan Southerland*
Watching chaotic scenes of civilians being evacuated in helicopters from Afghanistan takes me back to the last day of the Vietnam War.
It was April 29, 1975 and I was determined to see as much as I could from inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon before boarding a helicopter to leave Vietnam.
I...
A Reporter Looks Back: The Fall Of Saigon And The Takeover Of Kabul – OpEd
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