Name: I Survived A Plane Crash As A Baby
Uploaded: 2020-10-29T18:42:26.000Z
Duration: 8 min 34 s
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Past simple

I was born at the end of the Vietnam War,

so I don't really know exactly when I was born.

Americans know that there were 56,000 G.I deaths in the war,

But what the Americans don't talked about

as 3 million Vietnamese killed in the war.

As a result of that, there was as many as a million orphans,

so I always knew it was Sancta Maria Orphanage in Saigon,

However, because I don't speak Vietnamese,

I never really knew what the names meant.

she told me that 90% of the children died in my orphanage,

and in fact, we didn't even have enough diapers,

so they put us in buckets for most of the day.

was that every orphan was loved in the orphanage

and it's something I always remember that she told me.

and the Americans weren't gonna fight anymore,

to get money for what's called Operation Babylift.

Operation Babylift was a series of airlifts in April 1975.

It brought 3300 Vietnamese orphaned children

to countries like the USA, Australia, Canada and France,

although the official Number says 3300 children,

This was an evacuation at the end of the war

for whatever reason I was put on the first plane out

it was the largest airplane in the world,

the really big cargo planes, the one you see in the movies,

because I was a baby, they put me in a shoe box

and they put that on the airplane passenger seat,

Our plane took off from Tan Son Nhut Airport,

about 280 passengers and 30 crew members.

and all the people in the lower half of the plane

Because I was young I was in the upper half of the plane

After we lost power, the pilots tried to regain control,

and so they ended up speeding up the plane

and they turned around and crashed into a rice field.

The plane skidded for about quarter of a mile

and skipped up back in the air and then crashed into a dike.

We were full of fuel and the plane exploded into four parts

The plane was about a mile from the road,

so when the Americans sent in the rescue Jeeps,

they had to walk really far across the rice field,

and the helicopters arrived, but they couldn't land,

there was just smoke and fire everywhere,

they would lower one rescue worker at a time,

rescue one person and bring them back up in the basket.

But because the rescue operation was slow,

but either burn to death or drown in the mud.

and about 138 children and crew members were lost.

in Defense Intelligence Agency history, until 9/11.

even though I was here, I still didn't have a country,

so it was actually really difficult to prove that I existed.

All I had was my little three by five card

that said I was from Sancta Maria Orphanage.

and I actually don't even know how old I am,

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I Survived A Plane Crash As A Baby

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