{"product_id":"the-life-we-were-given-operation-babylift-international-adoption-and-the-children-of-war-in-vietnam","title":"The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift  International Adoption  and the Children of War in Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn April 1975  just before the fall of Saigon  the U.S. government launched \"Operation Babylift \" a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children and place them with adoptive families overseas. Chaotic from start to finish  the mission gripped the world-with a traumatic plane crash  international media snapping pictures of bewildered children traveling to their new homes  and families clamoring to adopt the waifs.Often presented as a great humanitarian effort  Operation Babylift provided an opportunity for national catharsis following the trauma of the American experience in Vietnam. Now  thirty-five years after the war ended  Dana Sachs examines this unprecedented event more carefully  revealing how a single public-policy gesture irrevocably altered thousands of lives  not always for the better. Though most of the children were orphans  many were not  and the rescue offered no possibility for families to later reunite. With sens\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948567949365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807042412","price":59.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807042410.jpg?v=1770051904","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-life-we-were-given-operation-babylift-international-adoption-and-the-children-of-war-in-vietnam","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}