{"id":6670,"date":"2009-04-27T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apacenter.wordpress.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-12-30T22:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:02:38","slug":"operation-babylift-saving-children-from-the-vietnam-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/operation-babylift-saving-children-from-the-vietnam-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Babylift: Saving Children from the Vietnam War"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 2009 marks the 34th anniversary of “Operation Babylift” (OBL), a humanitarian effort that provided for the evacuation of over 2,500 Vietnamese children and infants during the final weeks of the war in southeast Asia. Prior to OBL, international adoptions in the United States were infrequent and required an individual Act of Congress for each prospective adoptive family. OBL, by allowing a large number of international adoptees to enter the United States via parolee visa, changed the “complexion” of the United States and ushered in the era of international adoption still prevalent today.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\"Jennifer\n<\/td>\n\n\"Jennifer\n<\/td>\n\n\"Lana\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jennifer Nguyen Noone, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, May 1975<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jennifer Nguyen Noone<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lana Noone in front of Vietnam Babylift Quilt<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

April 2009 marks the 34th anniversary of “Operation Babylift” (OBL), a humanitarian effort that provided for the evacuation of over 2,500 Vietnamese children and infants during the final weeks of the war in southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

Time:<\/span>
Monday, April 27, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
\nLocation:<\/span>
Ring Auditorium
\nHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
\nIndependence Avenue and Seventh Street, SW
\nMetro:<\/span>
Smithsonian (Orange or Blue lines) or
L’Enfant Plaza (Yellow or Green lines)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to OBL, international adoptions in the United States were infrequent and required an individual act of Congress for each prospective adoptive family. OBL, by allowing a large number of international adoptees to enter the United States via parolee visa, changed the “complexion” of the United States and ushered in the era of international adoption still prevalent today.<\/p>\n

The program’s participants include Lana Mae Noone<\/strong><\/a>, OBL activist, adoptive mother, and author of Global Mom: Notes from a Pioneer Adoptive Family<\/em>; Jennifer Nguyen Noone<\/strong>, who was the final baby placed with a waiting family by OBL; Ross Meador<\/strong>, who was the field director for Friends of Children of Vietnam during OBL; LeAnn Thieman<\/strong><\/a>, adoptive mother and author of This Must Be My Brother<\/em>, as well as co-author of 10 titles in the popular Chicken Soup for the\u2026<\/em> series; and Philip R. Wise<\/strong>, a retired U.S. Air Force Sergeant who survived a tragic OBL plane crash.<\/p>\n

A temporary art and artifacts exhibit will be on display, including the Vietnam Babylift Quilt created from remnants of clothing worn by the orphans, original clothing, photos, materials, and the speakers’ personal artifacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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