https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/children-of-the-vietnam-war-131207347/
After being defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and forced to withdraw from Vietnam after nearly a century of colonial rule, France quickly evacuated 25,000 Vietnamese children of French parentage

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/03/14/vietnam-war-veterans-reunite-children-they-left-behind/11332892002/
What Vietnam War veteran wants you to know: After a month in Ukraine, this 77-year-old has a message for his fellow Americans. Trauma is a root cause of many veterans rejecting their Amerasian

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628398153/one-mans-mission-to-bring-home-amerasians-born-during-vietnam-war
The son of an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman, Miller was born in the shadow of the Vietnam War and was among the thousands of babies left behind after the U.S. withdrew from the conflict

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/us/vietnam-legacy-finding-gi-fathers-and-children-left-behind.html
After the war, those children — known as Amerasians — endured harsh discrimination and abject poverty in Vietnam, viewed as ugly reminders of an invading army. ... Cuong Luu was born in

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/12/transforming-legacy-children-born-war-vietnam
During and after the Vietnam War, up to 500,000 " children of war " were born to foreign soldiers and local women in Vietnam. Amerasians — children of war fathered by U.S. soldiers — and adoptees raised abroad are now reclaiming their narratives and healing journeys. James Copeland, an American veteran who found a daughter, Tiffany

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a07104d54dea413da3b10db734a2d371
Amerasian children of the Vietnam war faced discrimination, violence, and familial abandonment. They were outcasted and stigmatized as the enemy by conservative Vietnamese society, leaving them as foreigners in their own country. Amerasians were constantly teased and bullied if they were even able to attend school and those that weren't were

https://time.com/6275367/philippines-amerasian-children-us-military-legacy/
The Amerasian Immigration Act, which was passed in 1982, granted preferential immigration and eventual citizenship rights to children born to American servicemen and their Asian partners during

https://www.ft.com/content/88da9909-2f72-425a-a696-634ab2846e52
During the Vietnam war, thousands of American soldiers fathered children with Vietnamese women. Little is known about the plight of these Amerasians.

https://www.pbs.org/education/blog/exploring-stories-behind-the-amerasian-experience-after-the-vietnam-war
A Second Chance in the U.S. Fortunately, Robert J. Mrazek, a U.S. Congressman, flew to Vietnam after hearing about an Amerasian boy, named Le Van Minh, who needed medical help.. After seeing the

https://course-exhibits.library.dartmouth.edu/s/HIST10/page/tiao5
"Children of the Dust": Amerasian Experiences in Vietnam. Many American soldiers fathered children with Vietnamese women during the American involvement in the Vietnam War. The US government became concerned about the fate of these Amerasian children in official records as early as 1966, but no legal action was taken until the 1980s.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?189035-1/surviving-twice-amerasian-children-vietnam-war
Purchase a Download. Trin Yarborough talked about her book, [Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War], published by Potomac Books. She talked about the lives of orphans who weren

https://www.nprillinois.org/generationlisten/2018-07-12/one-mans-mission-to-bring-home-amerasians-born-during-vietnam-war
The son of an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman, Miller was born in the shadow of the Vietnam War and was among the thousands of babies left behind after the U.S. withdrew from the conflict in 1975. Miller's parents were married, but a combat injury forced his father to return to the U.S. when Miller was a baby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerasian
In Thailand, Amerasian children are dubbed as Luk khrueng or half children in the Thai language. These Amerasians were fathered by US soldiers who took part in the Vietnam War. At the height of the Vietnam War, 50,000 GIs were based in Thailand. The Pearl S. Buck Foundation estimated around 5,000-8,000 Thai Amerasians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Homecoming_Act
The American Homecoming Act or Amerasian Homecoming Act, was an Act of Congress giving preferential immigration status to children in Vietnam born of U.S. fathers. The American Homecoming Act was written in 1987, passed in 1988, and implemented in 1989. The act increased Vietnamese Amerasian immigration to the U.S. because it allowed applicants to establish a mixed race identity by appearance

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/03/children-vietnam-war-pushing-find-their-veteran-fathers-us/8748586002/
Amerasians are people of both American and Asian descent, particularly the children of a U.S. serviceman and an Asian woman.More than 20,000 Amerasians have immigrated from Vietnam to the U.S

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-05-oe-yarborough5-story.html
Vietnam's Lost Generation. By Trin Yarborough. May 5, 2005 12 AM PT. Trin Yarborough is the author of "Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War" (Potomac Books Inc., April 2005

https://books.google.com/books/about/Surviving_Twice.html?id=29QYrOeYXq0C
Potomac Books, Inc., 2005 - History - 303 pages. Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end and grew up as Americans, speaking English

https://theworld.org/stories/2016/08/01/vietnam-war-babies-grown-and-low-luck
The AmerAsian visa was created in 1987, when Congress relented to the outcry over urchins with American faces abandoned in the Vietnamese slums. No one knows exactly how many AmerAsians were born in Vietnam, but the U.S. has vetted and resettled nearly 30,000 children of U.S. troops and employees along with nearly 80,000 Vietnamese relatives.

https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Twice-Amerasian-Children-Vietnam/dp/157488865X
Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and attending American schools.

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/vietnam-war-s-amerasian-children-left-behind-17782353
It tells a moving story from an often-overlooked perspective — that of the Vietnamese women who had relationships with the American GIs and the (frequently abandoned) Amerasian children born out of that union. The novel unfolds in three distinct but eventually intersecting narratives that jump back and forth in time from 2016 to 1969.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN9Ek1cBnR0
Fascinating and disturbing stories from the BBC Holidays in the Danger Zone team. ** secretly arrange to meet a group of Amerasians, children of US soldiers

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/jun/17/children-of-the-vietnam-war-spent-decades-finding-/
Miller, an Amerasian whose father, James A. Miller, was an American soldier serving in Vietnam, helps to run a support group for Amerasian children which is working to try and get the last 300 or

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27159697
A US soldier searches for his Vietnamese son. 27 April 2014. By Sue Lloyd Roberts. BBC Newsnight. Thousands of children were fathered by American servicemen during the Vietnam war. Now in their

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/21/nx-s1-5010456/2-sisters-who-fled-the-vietnam-war-as-kids-reflect-on-what-theyve-been-through
But their story goes back to the Vietnam War. As young children, they came to the U.S. in the early 1980s from a refugee camp in Thailand after their family fled the war.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/3582809/
An estimated 10,000 women served in Vietnam, while more than 265,000 military and civilian women served around the world during that era. While 90% of the women who served in Vietnam were nurses

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-american-soldiers-killed-war-putin-1917694
Mothers of American soldiers killed fighting Russian forces as volunteers for Ukraine tell their stories amid concerns over flagging U.S. support