Summary
HUU VO owes his 1975 escape from Saigon to a well-timed birthday.
Vo, now a family practice doctor in Pomona, was an intern at a Saigon hospital when he requested and received a day off for his birthday: April 29.See the full content of this document
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35 Years Ago Today, a Dash for Freedom
But when he got home, his brother was packing. Through a connection, his brother, a government tax official, was planning to leave immediately on a South Vietnamese navy destroyer for America. Would Huu like to join him?
South Vietnam's president had resigned April 21 and artillery shells had begun falling on Saigon as the North Vietnamese army advanced...See the full content of this document
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