April 30, 2025, marked 50 years since the fall of Saigon in South Vietnam. Just seven days later — marked today — a plane carrying 70 refugees landed at Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, Arkansas. By the end of 1975, more than 50,000 refugees passed through Fort Chaffee. One of those refugees was 1-year-old Ngoc Nguyen, a Californian who revisited the area after recently discovering her roots in Arkansas.
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