For the past 33 years, this picture has been used widely
by worldwide media to describe the Vietnamese refugees' ordeal
in their efforts to search for the sacred gift of FREEDOM.
What it
meant here was they threw their lives in the cruel,
ruthless ocean trying to find a life with freedom if they
eventually find it.
Again,
some of them were able to make it by the easiest way to
freedom..
They were adrift in the middle of nowhere for days. Young kids
and women were dog-tired since there were only little food and
fresh water left, but a US Navy happened to catch them in
time ...
Again, others were lucky to fly out of
Vietnam by helicopters ..
Thanks for throwing us a rope, a life-line. We would not let
it go ... no matter what ...
As usual, there was always some lucky Vietnamese
who were able to make it to freedom by air ..
Thanks for holding the life-lines. Please don't let them
go ..
Again, thanks to efforts from
various US Armed Services which provided helicopters to
ferry the refugees to helicopter carriers in the open
sea.
There has been much argument about the role of a man
in VC uniform who happened to be on this boat: was
he a VC infiltrator among the evacuees or he was a
genuine refugee himself?
I hope he was so tired and fed up with the
Vietnamese communist's paradise on earth ...now he
just ran into the luck of a lifetime, he took it and
along with the others to go in search for the land
of milk and honey in the West.
Where was the U.S. Seventh Fleet? It must be lurking
somewhere out there ..
Boat peoples' daily activities on board of the CAP
AN-AMUR. These emigrants were on their ways to Wake
Inland for temporary rest and recuperation before
taking the longest journey to the land flowing
with milk and honey: America.
Other fishing boats with evacuees were anxious to be
rescued.
It was an embarkation point for the
refugees but I just can't identify it ..
Again.. for the Love of God, please throw us a
rope ..
These photos speak for themselves ... I don't
think I should add anything more..
