Posted on 08/21/2021 11:18:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
On April 29, 1975, Nguyen did something that could have been ripped from the script of a “Mission Impossible” movie. He was fleeing from the North Vietnamese army with his wife and their three young children as communist soldiers crashed the gates of Saigon
“We couldn’t figure out how he did it; he was a Houdini,”.
“Unless somebody shoots at us, we ain’t shooting,” Jacobs told his crew.
He radioed the Kirk that he would hover just above the deck. Then he would order his wife and three children to take their chances by jumping out of the helicopter, into the arms of sailors. Kent Chipman was one of those sailors waiting below. ... “Chippy.” He weighed only 130 pounds, and wondered if he was big enough to break the fall of the Chinook’s passengers. As he held up his arms, he had a thought: This is going to be bad
Chipman never forgot Nguyen’s coolness under pressure and the relief he felt when he successfully caught the pilot’s infant daughter and wife.
“It was a happy ending to a shitty war,” he said. As they made their way down a hallway, the first Kirk crewman she saw was “Chippy” Chipman, the sailor who had caught her and her infant daughter as they jumped out of the helicopter years ago.
“He was staring at me and I was staring at him. He knew and I just knew,”
“I was proud,” Chipman said of seeing Mina. “I don’t have children, but it was like seeing your long-lost daughter all grown up. She did well for herself.”
Nguyen shuffled to his feet from his wheelchair, straightened his jacket as he looked at Jacobs, and, with a trembling right hand, he saluted.
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That one brought a happy tear. Thanks for posting.
—”That one brought a happy tear.”
I’m very glad that you appreciate the situation.
A debt of honor.
What's this watery stuff coming out of my eyes?!
I wonder why so many want to come so such an “awful” country???
I don’t often click links to read the whole story. Especially a CNN link. I’m glad I did this one.
I’m asking myself “Why is this wonderful story coming from CNN?”
And “Why now?”
Because CNN is in the business of narrative management for those
directing the heinous actions of the PedoDementoCorruptoCrat
administration.
Guess what. The folks the recent intentional “follies” will now be bringing
here in droves, are nothing like Nguyen and his family.
But you are supposed to think they are.
~Easy
Must-Read. See the whole thing on . . . yes, CNN.
Wow. Just wow.
The Fall of Saigon had infinitely more grace and dignity than anything we are seeing today in Biden’s Afghanistan.
That’s a great story.
Sadly, there are many people nowadays who were born and lived in the U.S. their entire lives; who have alot of disdain for this country. We need less of those folks, and more people like Nguyen.
This country as a whole, had a lot more grace in 1975, but that was when the Radical Democrats started doing their damage.
Sincere thakn you for posting this remarkable story. May this NOW AMERICAN family be blessed and a blessing to others
I remember the film of the VNAF pilot who did something similar to this with a Huey, but had never heard of this story.
Such a wonderful backstory.
That is incredible.
My wife’s mother escaped what became North Korea. Used to love her stories. Many she wouldn’t tell completely and the are lost with her.
Interesting that the model appears to be wearing kohl on her eyebrows?
Very popular in the Stans for women and men.
“Because CNN is in the business of narrative management”
Exactly. CNN says get ready to accept thousands of Afghan’s into your community and they’ll be just like the South Vietnamese.
I miss this kind of reporting by CNN.
April 2015 - That was CNN before it went total anti-Trump and anti-American.
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