It\'s April 1975 and the armies of North Vietnam are pushing into South Vietnam, leaving death and destruction in their wake.
But if he leaves, will he ever see his home and his grandmother again? Award-winning author Andrea Warren -whose own adopted daughter was one of 2,300 orphans brought to safety through Operation Babylift- shares the true story of Long\'s journey from war-ravaged Vietnam to his new life in America\'s heartland, and ultimately to his return to Saigon to make peace with his past..
A family in Ohio is waiting to adopt Long. government\'s rescue effort to airlift children like him out of harm\'s way.
What kind of future can he have in a country ruled by North Vietnam-America\'s enemy? His only hope of escaping Saigon is via Operation Babylift-the U.
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He is a mixed-blood child, the son of a white American father and a Vietnamese mother.
In a Saigon orphanage, eight-year-old Long waits and worries.
It\'s April 1975 and the armies of North Vietnam are pushing into South Vietnam, leaving death and destruction in their wake
