Vietnam Babylift Personal
Stories
Anne
Dear Lana,
Thank you, because you're the first one trying to list all civilian people
who died in the Galaxy crash.
I knew Dolly Bui quite well. She always seemed to be so happy and optmistic,
everytime I could see her home, when she came regularly to France with the
children who had to be adopted.
In 1975 I was 15 years old, and Dolly worked with my mother for a French adoption
organization. Dolly was managing an orphanage in Saigon, where she was living
for many years with all her family.
A few days before the crash, her husband and her elder daughter Marina, took
another flight to France and were safe.
But Dolly was still in Saigon with her 3 other children : David, Michou and
Tina Bui. She was staying there because it was very difficult to find a place
on an aircraft. And until the last moment, she had to take care of all the
orphans who had to be evacuated.
Tina was the first to die. There was an enormous hole in the fuselage of the
plane, and Tina was aspired out, before the plane crashed to the ground. It's
a whole family who died this day. And nobody seemed to care about it before
you. Only the women from American Army were listed in memoriam. But what about
all civilian and non-American people who died too?
So many volunteers from many countries, so many children that people all around
the word are still mourning for ...
Anne
France