i am a Vietnamese orphan who also was on the babylift. i just attended the 48 year reunion in Colorado and got to meet Tobi, Stacy and Mary for the first time. They are all wonderful women who i got to share my story with and to finally have a connection with them and others who were in the same position as myself. Thanks to them and the other Vietnamese adoptees i met i can finally say i’m starting my own journey.
This made me incredibly emotional. Just like Stacy, I am also half Vietnamese. I feel so fortunate to have my mother. I feel so sorry that she never got to meet hers.
Thank you Melinda and Tee. Just now reading over these comments after a few years of processing all of this. My life would have been horrible in VN since I do look very mixed Tee. I am grateful for how things have turned out despite the sadness of not having my mother in my life.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 .. Glad to hear you found your family & know your roots. It killed me to see you cry hugging her shoes.I can relate to your pain as my mother passed away unexpectedly in Malaysia while i was in Australia.Circumstances prevented me from returning until 8 yrs later when i finally returned.Like you, i balled my eyes out at her final resting place.. that pain has subsided but that ache, that missing her still remain unhealed... God bless you, Tracy. Glad you hv made peace with your past.🙂❤
@@shazzaleone6288 Thank you. I keep her shoes by my bedside. I have missed her everyday since I was a little girl and a day does not go by that I do not think of her. I am thankful for my birth family and how they have surrounded me with so much love and support. Family is everything.
Me too... that killed me. In some ways, i can relate to this horrible ache.My mother passed away in Malaysia,unexpectedly while i was away in Australia..
It was the first time I had held something that I knew belonged to her, and that had touched her skin. It was the only thing left my family owned of hers. They gave me the shoes the next day to keep. Love your parents with all your heart, you never know when it will be the last time you see them.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 That was very beautiful, thank you for sharing your story and such precious, personal moments with the world. I'm crying just having watched it, I cannot imagine the emotions you must have felt living it.. I wonder are you still in touch with your relatives in Vietnam? Or if you have any plans to return?
In the Vietnamese version, her uncle states that her mother assumed she was dead because of the circling news about the aircraft that crashed. Her mother initially went "insane" with grief, later being diagnosed with a mental disorder. Saddening, but there's no doubt that there was love here.
Michael Phong Mitchell I'm sorry to hear that man. I'm sure she loves you and one day you will reunite with her in heaven. She is looking down on you. My mother never met my grandfather either. I never have either. I don't know what he looks like, and my mother was raised without a father
What a brave mama Stacy had. Trying to keep and provide for her but realizing since her father was an American soldier that she’d be ostracized and not have a future. She tried to give her a better life and she succeeded. The tears come when you see how loving and affectionate her family is and her holding her mama’s shoes to her heart! 😢
@WingsOfTruth I am happy to say that many more VN adoptees have found their birth families like myself. DNA testing is becoming so well known around the world and families are being reunited after all these years. March 6th marked the 44th anniversary from when I left VN.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 Deeply moved by your story. I am from India and visited Vietnam twice last year and am deeply in love with the people and the land. I wish you all the happiness, rootedness and joy for your life ahead
This is so touching. After I saw this, I realized even more that wars brought only lost & tears. Congratulations to whom that found their home. Good job to the team who made this documentary.
So heart breaking seeing her weeping the pain of missing her mom and the chance of getting to know her in person, but happy for her to meeting her families there and the warm heart welcome given her.
Yes, I gasped when they showed her mother's photo, because you can immediately recognize they are related, "That's her mother!!!" They definitely look alike.
I'm feeding my 20 month old baby while watching this. I was unprepared for the tears dripping down my face. Man my heart aches for all these people especially stacy
This was so touching that I literally cried. I saw Stacy in the Baltimore Reunion in 2000. I am searching for my birthfamily and have sent in my DNA test so that my DNA can hopefully find a match to Vietnamese in my motherland.
My heart broke 💔 when Stacy found out her mother was dead! But, I was so happy that she found her other family members. There's nothing better than knowing where you come from, who you look like and who your blood relatives are!
I can't believe I'm crying Oh WOW incredible story, I'm so glad she found her family. For sure her Mom very very happy to see daughter back home for the first time 40 years.
I started balling when I saw Stacy's story. She had so much emotion. I felt bad due to the fact that she did not get a chance to meet her biological mother. Hopefully she gets to bond with her new found family.
Thank you Engelbert. I have gone back again since the reunion and my family has been so amazing in not only accepting me, but in loving me. They gave me the gift of family again. I can only hope my documentary gives other Vietnamese Amerasians and adoptees courage to take their DNA tests and hope that dreams can come true.
@@geraldobrien7323 Yes. With further DNA, I have narrowed it down to a specific family and one particular man who resides in Delaware. I have reached out to him a couple of times and he has rejected any contact. It has been very difficult and painful to have him not want to address my existence or be excited to meet me. I do not know how to proceed any further.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 Would you have any clue as to why he would reject the possibility of you being his daughter? Do you think he’s afraid of something if this is revealed? Was he married at the time? Does he think that you’re gonna want something from him? Is he afraid his family is going to reject him if they find out he was with a Vietnamese woman? I’m not excusing it, because it must be very painful for you, but if you can somehow find out what his fear is, you can address it so that he is open to meeting and acknowledging you.
I was a young man in Vietnam when the baby lift occurred. At the time in my mind I though they were the lucky one. Her Vietnamese family welcomed her with open arms (Vietnamese Southerner are the most open and honest in their interaction with others). I watched the longer Vietnamese version of this reunion and noticed they follow Vietnamese way of doing thing referred her to her half brother as "Chi Hai" or their oldest sister. This position is well respect within sibling ranking. She is in effect the matriarch of her mother family.
Aido Operation Baby Lift was a fraud and a cover up to evacuate the US government's assets and people who worked for them. It wasn't because the babies were going to be harmed. It was the spies and the Vietnamese who worked with the US. The US didn't care about the babies. CIA operative have spoken on this and confirmed it was a big lie. They knew the American people would support babies instead of telling what the operation was for. Just like how the US lied and did a false flag in the Gulf of Tonkin incident
So bittersweet. I'm so sad for Stacy that she didn't get to meet her mom, but so happy for her that she was embraced by her family and got the answers she wanted.
Very Emotional Video. Your Mom was very pretty. I can see both of you look alike. Have courage cause other family members need you. Keep in touch with them.
I wish she would have come home much sooner.. I went home after leaving Vietnam in 1975 in 1996 and it was life changing. I'm a proud American growing up here but my heart belongs in Vietnam where the sites, sounds and smells reminds me of my childhood.
VEGANSAM did you see the Vietnamese version of this story? It actually plays after this clip on youtube and it's over an hour long.. so heart breaking but so good!
As an adoptee, being reunited with my birth family after so many years, I can relate to some of this. I can not fathom nor wish to Stacy's torment. I am glad both individuals got to meet their families.
I’m bawling at 6 in the morning watching this. Seeing her family wiping her tears and holding her at her mothers grave showed how strong and loving family is even if you haven’t known each other after multiple decades .
I don't cry unless it's fir my children. But this, made me cry. As a mother, and a daughter...this was sad to see that she was too late. The first time she sees her mother is at her grave.
Oh my goodness, these types of videos always tugs at my heart strings. I completely lose control of my emotions. God bless this family and all family’s who has had to give up a child for whatever reason and bless especially the children in search of their birth parents. 🙏🏼💞
His name is Barry Petersen and he is a wonderful journalist I have had the pleasure becoming good friends with. He was very real and sincere during the entire shoot and it was obvious that he loved his job.
Cried my eyes out for these two women. May they find peace. Stacy your Vietnamese family looks so welcoming. In VietNam family is everything. I served in Vietnam and currently live here. I’m often overwhelmed by the culture.
Stacy, I did cry along with you. In 2017, I went back to Thailand to visit other relatives and see if my mom was still living and waiting for me (she passed away in a refugee camp in northern Thailand while I was with her when she passed away), but I felt like I was looking forward to see her.
The way she cried break my heart. I could sense that how disappointed and sad she was.Anyway, it was such a relief for the rest of her life.I hope she can find her birth father to make her life compeleted.
This very fine documentary relates to a human tragedy that could've been avoided. It touched so many hearts. The stories of all these children now adults trying to find their family roots back home made me very sentimental. Good luck to all of them.
Wow, I never knew there were so many orphaned children during the end of the Vietnam war. I am lucky I was born in the US, and that my mom was able to leave Saigon in 1974.
The bond between a mother and daughter are strong. From the moment of conception, your mind, body, and soul are as one. I applaud these women for their perseverance in the quest for answers, especially using technology to ensure that your vulnerabilities are not exploited. We cannot change the past, but we can always improve our future. Best of luck to the future... family is the foundation of life.
So emotional! And beautiful, i blessed that i can have parents, my father don't see me growing up, but god it's beautiful everyday, i hope that she can se that everything that be okay, and your mother lives happy in the heaven, and this is sad and the same time cute...
My eyes aren't wet. That's from the smoke in the fireplace. The human stories of war are the most devastating. May peace and love find them all. For all time.
I burst into tears when Stacy cried in the grave of her beloved mama ❤️💜😭 it breaks my heart! Hope she cud hv connected with her bio father/family by now 💐
Stacy (Ngoc Thuy) looks like her mom. Her mom was very pretty. It is bitter sweet for the orphan who finally came back to find the place where they come from. I wish the best to them all.
I'm hoping that this trip brought more resolution to both your lives . . . Stacey now knows that her mother never forgot about her . Now she has a family in Vietnam that she knows love her very much . . . . 😭 Happy tears for you both !
My mother is half Vietnamese and her father was an American soldier who supposedly is still alive and lives in the U.S. It would be wonderful if I could find my biological grandfather and meet him one day. I'm sure my mother would love to find her biological father as well.
Incredible story. I accidentally (or so I thought)attended a Vietnamese mass and it was beautiful. The love flowing to me from everyone was great. I hope that all of my brothers and sisters can feel welcome and loved. God bless you all!
I not only cried after watching this I was subbing. I’m so grateful that she found her family. It’s just so sad what wars do to people worldwide. If women ran the world there would be no wars because no woman would send their child into war.
I always tried to help the children when I was in Iraq. I’d try to help any of the locals. I was chastised for it too by our own troops. It made me into an outcast in my unit. I couldn’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to help a child. You’d be surprised by how many soldiers just don’t give a damn. It’s not the soldier who pays the highest price in war. It’s the innocent civilians.
I'm an adoptee as well. I spent twenty years fighting red tape. I never got through it no matter how hard I tried. It was finally 23 & me that connected me with my biological mother's family. I was 7 months too late to meet her. She died of brain cancer. Not going to lie... I had a ugly cry seeing that lady crying when she found that her birth mother was gone. That's a pain I know ALL too well. All I have are a few pictures of people I will probably never meet... and no clue who my birth father is.
I remember when that C 5 US Air Force Operation Babylift aircraft went down. The news caused me a lot of stress and grief. The horrors of war were still fresh in my mind. I was recently discharged from the military in Dec. of 1971. I had worked in Vietnam loading planes and cargo on large transport planes. This C 5 crash was very close to home. I thought about the unfortunate GI babies and their pitiful plight. God Bless their little souls. My mom used to worry a lot about the abandoned GI baby orphans from the Korean War. She always wanted to adopt an orphan. I'm feeling a lot better now . TY 4 presenting this video to serve as closure in this tragic military/civilian disaster. I can handle it better now.
@Stacy Thuy Meredith, I watched another video and this one and still cried both times. My heart ached for you. I was in the US as long as you but I was more fortunate to return and met my mother before she passed away a month or two later.
You are so lucky to have had that opportunity. When I went on this trip, I was under the impression she was still alive and I was meeting her. That was a huge blow to my heart when they told me there.
Some women left their kids in the orphanage cuz they had no choice , there was no food for their kids to survive , others lost their kids while they were running and the orphanage found the kids on the street
i am a Vietnamese orphan who also was on the babylift. i just attended the 48 year reunion in Colorado and got to meet Tobi, Stacy and Mary for the first time. They are all wonderful women who i got to share my story with and to finally have a connection with them and others who were in the same position as myself. Thanks to them and the other Vietnamese adoptees i met i can finally say i’m starting my own journey.
Damn, I cried......God blessed all orphans, son, daughter and mother who still looking for each other.
God?
This made me incredibly emotional. Just like Stacy, I am also half Vietnamese. I feel so fortunate to have my mother. I feel so sorry that she never got to meet hers.
Melinda you are extremely beautiful
Thank you Melinda and Tee. Just now reading over these comments after a few years of processing all of this. My life would have been horrible in VN since I do look very mixed Tee. I am grateful for how things have turned out despite the sadness of not having my mother in my life.
What wrong with look westerner in VN?
@@stacythuymeredith1687 .. Glad to hear you found your family & know your roots.
It killed me to see you cry hugging her shoes.I can relate to your pain as my mother passed away unexpectedly in Malaysia while i was in Australia.Circumstances prevented me from returning until 8 yrs later when i finally returned.Like you, i balled my eyes out at her final resting place.. that pain has subsided but that ache, that missing her still remain unhealed...
God bless you, Tracy. Glad you hv made peace with your past.🙂❤
@@shazzaleone6288 Thank you. I keep her shoes by my bedside. I have missed her everyday since I was a little girl and a day does not go by that I do not think of her. I am thankful for my birth family and how they have surrounded me with so much love and support. Family is everything.
When she was hugging her mothers shoes I broke down in tears. So sad.
Me too... that killed me.
In some ways, i can relate to this horrible ache.My mother passed away in Malaysia,unexpectedly while i was away in Australia..
It was the first time I had held something that I knew belonged to her, and that had touched her skin. It was the only thing left my family owned of hers. They gave me the shoes the next day to keep. Love your parents with all your heart, you never know when it will be the last time you see them.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 That was very beautiful, thank you for sharing your story and such precious, personal moments with the world. I'm crying just having watched it, I cannot imagine the emotions you must have felt living it.. I wonder are you still in touch with your relatives in Vietnam? Or if you have any plans to return?
Stacy Thuy Meredith thank you for sharing.
@@evangeline77x Yes we are very close and hope to return this year
In the Vietnamese version, her uncle states that her mother assumed she was dead because of the circling news about the aircraft that crashed. Her mother initially went "insane" with grief, later being diagnosed with a mental disorder. Saddening, but there's no doubt that there was love here.
thats so sad oh my god
Her mother died of heart ache. Call it what you will, she was heartbroken for her beloved.
Give your mom a hug after you see this... Be fortunate to have one...
+M1ster JP, I would if my adoptive mother were still alive.
Michael Phong Mitchell I'm sorry to hear that man. I'm sure she loves you and one day you will reunite with her in heaven. She is looking down on you. My mother never met my grandfather either. I never have either. I don't know what he looks like, and my mother was raised without a father
Mine died too.
I wish I could ,my mother died February 8,2008. I hug my dad every day.
I am thankful and grateful to still have my Mom. I wish Stacey would have been able to meet and hug her Mom.
I'm not often moved to tears when watching videos, but this one really got to me. At least now she has answers and new family members.
When she started crying at her Mother’s grave, I started crying like a baby.
Me too
Absolutely
What a brave mama Stacy had. Trying to keep and provide for her but realizing since her father was an American soldier that she’d be ostracized and not have a future. She tried to give her a better life and she succeeded.
The tears come when you see how loving and affectionate her family is and her holding her mama’s shoes to her heart! 😢
Stacy's resemblance to her birth mother is incredible.
Agreed . No dna test needed
Thank you. I am honored to look so much like her.
@WingsOfTruth I am happy to say that many more VN adoptees have found their birth families like myself. DNA testing is becoming so well known around the world and families are being reunited after all these years. March 6th marked the 44th anniversary from when I left VN.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 Deeply moved by your story. I am from India and visited Vietnam twice last year and am deeply in love with the people and the land. I wish you all the happiness, rootedness and joy for your life ahead
The 2lbs baby is the strongest I was born 2lbs I'm strong
This is so touching. After I saw this, I realized even more that wars brought only lost & tears. Congratulations to whom that found their home. Good job to the team who made this documentary.
I am so glad she found her uncle and half brother I am crying with happiness
So heart breaking seeing her weeping the pain of missing her mom and the chance of getting to know her in person, but happy for her to meeting her families there and the warm heart welcome given her.
The love and forgiveness these people have shown her is amazing.
Why would she need to be forgiven?
She is American
Stacy is so beautiful just like her mom
Yes, I gasped when they showed her mother's photo, because you can immediately recognize they are related, "That's her mother!!!" They definitely look alike.
Thank you for your kind words
Thank you. You have brought me to tears. I miss her so much.
This is a touching piece just bringing me to tears. May the world peace forever. May all the families never divided.
I'm feeding my 20 month old baby while watching this. I was unprepared for the tears dripping down my face. Man my heart aches for all these people especially stacy
This was so touching that I literally cried. I saw Stacy in the Baltimore Reunion in 2000. I am searching for my birthfamily and have sent in my DNA test so that my DNA can hopefully find a match to Vietnamese in my motherland.
Michael Phong Mitchell Good luck in finding your birth family.
Vesper Martini, thank you. :)
Michael Phong Mitchell such a heart warming story, does Stacy have a Facebook so we can follow her?
TuanPhamousFotos, yes, she does.
Who knows?? I might have met a birth family member without realizing it when I went back "home." I am friends with Tobi Snyder on FB.
Cried the whole time. May God give her peace w/ her new life now.....meeting her family.
very powerful and emotional. What a beautiful soul Stacy has
Agreed god has blessed her fully and I'm so glad
My heart broke 💔 when Stacy found out her mother was dead! But, I was so happy that she found her other family members. There's nothing better than knowing where you come from, who you look like and who your blood relatives are!
A bummer of news but Happy news in the end and closure.
The heart will cry 'till all the grief is gone!!!
Seeing this on Mother's day is overwhelming. Happy at least Stacy got her questions answered. Hope they keep in touch.
I can't believe I'm crying
Oh WOW incredible story, I'm so glad she found her family. For sure her Mom very very happy to see daughter back home for the first time 40 years.
I started balling when I saw Stacy's story. She had so much emotion. I felt bad due to the fact that she did not get a chance to meet her biological mother. Hopefully she gets to bond with her new found family.
Thank you Engelbert. I have gone back again since the reunion and my family has been so amazing in not only accepting me, but in loving me. They gave me the gift of family again. I can only hope my documentary gives other Vietnamese Amerasians and adoptees courage to take their DNA tests and hope that dreams can come true.
Stacy Thuy Meredith I am so happy for you! May your life be full of happiness from now on.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 Do you have any idea about your birth father? He may not even know that he has a daughter.
@@geraldobrien7323 Yes. With further DNA, I have narrowed it down to a specific family and one particular man who resides in Delaware. I have reached out to him a couple of times and he has rejected any contact. It has been very difficult and painful to have him not want to address my existence or be excited to meet me. I do not know how to proceed any further.
@@stacythuymeredith1687 Would you have any clue as to why he would reject the possibility of you being his daughter? Do you think he’s afraid of something if this is revealed? Was he married at the time? Does he think that you’re gonna want something from him? Is he afraid his family is going to reject him if they find out he was with a Vietnamese woman?
I’m not excusing it, because it must be very painful for you, but if you can somehow find out what his fear is, you can address it so that he is open to meeting and acknowledging you.
Sad but beautiful and happy at once. I really appreciate how candid this video is about these individuals journeys.
I was a young man in Vietnam when the baby lift occurred. At the time in my mind I though they were the lucky one. Her Vietnamese family welcomed her with open arms (Vietnamese Southerner are the most open and honest in their interaction with others). I watched the longer Vietnamese version of this reunion and noticed they follow Vietnamese way of doing thing referred her to her half brother as "Chi Hai" or their oldest sister. This position is well respect within sibling ranking. She is in effect the matriarch of her mother family.
+Dinh Nguyen I've tried finding the VN version of it without success. Can you please point me in the right direction?
+Vincent Nguyen look for (Me oi con da ve )
Aido Operation Baby Lift was a fraud and a cover up to evacuate the US government's assets and people who worked for them. It wasn't because the babies were going to be harmed. It was the spies and the Vietnamese who worked with the US. The US didn't care about the babies. CIA operative have spoken on this and confirmed it was a big lie. They knew the American people would support babies instead of telling what the operation was for. Just like how the US lied and did a false flag in the Gulf of Tonkin incident
i just watched the vietnam full version and it is fantastic ( its in english )
AKM5.45 SHOOTER I recommend you for a Red Star Award for glorious revolutionary re education.
So bittersweet. I'm so sad for Stacy that she didn't get to meet her mom, but so happy for her that she was embraced by her family and got the answers she wanted.
Oh my god I cried a lot. I’m glad Stacy found her family in Vietnam.
I cried the whole time I watched this
I’m sorry Stacy .
"Was I a bad child, so my mom had to give me away?" That just broke your heart.
+Holly Clareborne, I never thought that. I have always wanted to find my birthmother.
Very Emotional Video. Your Mom was very pretty. I can see both of you look alike. Have courage cause other family members need you. Keep in touch with them.
I wish she would have come home much sooner.. I went home after leaving Vietnam in 1975 in 1996 and it was life changing. I'm a proud American growing up here but my heart belongs in Vietnam where the sites, sounds and smells reminds me of my childhood.
It’s much different for adoptees. We aren’t seaped into our birth culture and relate more to American stuff.
A powerful piece. Brought me to tears.
man. this was so sad and so happy at the same time.
No offense to CBS Sunday, but this EXTREMELY well-done documentary should've been a 60 Minutes segment, so more people would've seen it.
VEGANSAM did you see the Vietnamese version of this story? It actually plays after this clip on youtube and it's over an hour long.. so heart breaking but so good!
TuanPhamousFotos I didn't mean the length of the segment...I was referring to 60 Minutes, the most popular TV news program in the USA...
Yes u are right
ik im a bit late, but do you have me a link for that? i cant find it...
ruclips.net/video/HRxFwKMaPZI/видео.html
I got snot in my ears from laying down crying. Sending love out to all the people hurting 😢💞
As an adoptee, being reunited with my birth family after so many years, I can relate to some of this. I can not fathom nor wish to Stacy's torment. I am glad both individuals got to meet their families.
Sweet Mother, Sweet Daughter..God Bless..
I’m bawling at 6 in the morning watching this. Seeing her family wiping her tears and holding her at her mothers grave showed how strong and loving family is even if you haven’t known each other after multiple decades .
Wow, that was a tear jerker. My heart aches for that woman.
Tell the Americans not to start an other war. This will be the result.
I don't cry unless it's fir my children. But this, made me cry. As a mother, and a daughter...this was sad to see that she was too late. The first time she sees her mother is at her grave.
this touch my heart, grow strong Stacy. Always remember your root
I have nothing to say, just cried and cried. God have mercy!
Hugs!!!
And The Lord Said, Let There Be Light, And there was Light!!
This had me in tears
Oh my goodness, these types of videos always tugs at my heart strings. I completely lose control of my emotions. God bless this family and all family’s who has had to give up a child for whatever reason and bless especially the children in search of their birth parents. 🙏🏼💞
I like this voice of this guy real journalist. The old man.
His name is Barry Petersen and he is a wonderful journalist I have had the pleasure becoming good friends with. He was very real and sincere during the entire shoot and it was obvious that he loved his job.
Cried my eyes out for these two women. May they find peace. Stacy your Vietnamese family looks so welcoming. In VietNam family is everything. I served in Vietnam and currently live here. I’m often overwhelmed by the culture.
Stacy, I did cry along with you. In 2017, I went back to Thailand to visit other relatives and see if my mom was still living and waiting for me (she passed away in a refugee camp in northern Thailand while I was with her when she passed away), but I felt like I was looking forward to see her.
That was so painful to watch. God bless this family and heal her broken heart
💔
May ✌️& ❤️ be with all Vietnamese affected and broken by that horrific deplorable war..
The way she cried break my heart. I could sense that how disappointed and sad she was.Anyway, it was such a relief for the rest of her life.I hope she can find her birth father to make her life compeleted.
This very fine documentary relates to a human tragedy that could've been avoided. It touched so many hearts. The stories of all these children now adults trying to find their family roots back home made me very sentimental. Good luck to all of them.
Very happy to see. Best wishes to the lady and her Family.
Wow, I never knew there were so many orphaned children during the end of the Vietnam war. I am lucky I was born in the US, and that my mom was able to leave Saigon in 1974.
The bond between a mother and daughter are strong. From the moment of conception, your mind, body, and soul are as one. I applaud these women for their perseverance in the quest for answers, especially using technology to ensure that your vulnerabilities are not exploited. We cannot change the past, but we can always improve our future. Best of luck to the future... family is the foundation of life.
so happy for you stacy
Thank you Vinh. Bless you
So sad, but so proud, I was able to played a part in the final days of Saigon. Semper Fi
Thank you sir for your services.
It’s emotional, no one to blame but the war. I’m glad they all grown up to good human beings. God Bless them all.
So emotional! And beautiful, i blessed that i can have parents, my father don't see me growing up, but god it's beautiful everyday, i hope that she can se that everything that be okay, and your mother lives happy in the heaven, and this is sad and the same time cute...
This is definitely one of the most emotional stories out there.
My heart hurts after seeing this. I missy mom so much. God bless you mam, you have closure. You will see her.
My eyes aren't wet. That's from the smoke in the fireplace. The human stories of war are the most devastating. May peace and love find them all. For all time.
Man these are heart wrenching........
I burst into tears when Stacy cried in the grave of her beloved mama ❤️💜😭 it breaks my heart! Hope she cud hv connected with her bio father/family by now 💐
Stacy (Ngoc Thuy) looks like her mom. Her mom was very pretty. It is bitter sweet for the orphan who finally came back to find the place where they come from. I wish the best to them all.
I'm hoping that this trip brought more resolution to both your lives . . . Stacey now knows that her mother never forgot about her . Now she has a family in Vietnam that she knows love her very much . . . . 😭 Happy tears for you both !
My mother is half Vietnamese and her father was an American soldier who supposedly is still alive and lives in the U.S. It would be wonderful if I could find my biological grandfather and meet him one day. I'm sure my mother would love to find her biological father as well.
Incredible story. I accidentally (or so I thought)attended a Vietnamese mass and it was beautiful. The love flowing to me from everyone was great.
I hope that all of my brothers and sisters can feel welcome and loved.
God bless you all!
I teared up a little bit by watching this... I understand her loss because i lost my mom 3 years ago on Halloween and i still cant get over it..
Amazing story of Stacy. Thanks for sharing this.
I am so glad she found answers.
I not only cried after watching this I was subbing. I’m so grateful that she found her family. It’s just so sad what wars do to
people worldwide. If women ran the world there would be no wars because no woman would send their child into war.
Dang, this stuff made me cry....wooo...
OMG Stacy and her mom just a match without dna prove
Stacy sure doesnt look viet
Temujin Khan her birth father was an American soldier who was white they said it in the video
Beautiful and painful emotions.
Hope she found peace finding her home! Best Wishes!
This made my soul cry
I can't believe that I cried but it's happy tear from me hope you all the best I believe that your mother still with you inside your heart.
I don't know Stacy, but I love her and I can relate to her longing to be know her birth mother.. God Bless you Stacy and your family
I always tried to help the children when I was in Iraq. I’d try to help any of the locals. I was chastised for it too by our own troops. It made me into an outcast in my unit. I couldn’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to help a child. You’d be surprised by how many soldiers just don’t give a damn. It’s not the soldier who pays the highest price in war. It’s the innocent civilians.
Those are your brothers tho 😈
And no. We would not be surprised how many caucasian soldiers are immoral. You are wrong about that
I’m in tears, this is heartbreaking for me, as a Vietnamese to see my people being torn apart bc of war.
do you think the ccp would try to provoke vietnam to recognized their illegal land claims?
My emotions got the best of me watching this. God bless those beautiful women.
This is such a heartbreaking story. I just weep for this woman and her family, both families. So sad.
Nice to see such a beautiful on RUclips once in awhile. Burned out a fail, pranks, cooking, unboxing, reviews and ads.
I cried so hard I have no more tears left, your mom loves you Stacy be safe and strong peace....what ❤❤❤❤
I'm an adoptee as well. I spent twenty years fighting red tape. I never got through it no matter how hard I tried. It was finally 23 & me that connected me with my biological mother's family. I was 7 months too late to meet her. She died of brain cancer. Not going to lie... I had a ugly cry seeing that lady crying when she found that her birth mother was gone. That's a pain I know ALL too well. All I have are a few pictures of people I will probably never meet... and no clue who my birth father is.
Her momma is in heaven looking down at her beautiful daughter.
I cried so hard at the end of the video
I hella cried 😭I'm sorry for her n also glad she got some answers
I remember when that C 5 US Air Force Operation Babylift aircraft went down. The news caused me a lot of stress and grief. The horrors of war were still fresh in my mind. I was recently discharged from the military in Dec. of 1971. I had worked in Vietnam loading planes and cargo on large transport planes. This C 5 crash was very close to home. I thought about the unfortunate GI babies and their pitiful plight. God Bless their little souls. My mom used to worry a lot about the abandoned GI baby orphans from the Korean War. She always wanted to adopt an orphan. I'm feeling a lot better now . TY 4 presenting this video to serve as closure in this tragic military/civilian disaster. I can handle it better now.
Powerful. I was adopted too. My dad died before I could meet him, but I have 4 half sisters!
I wish and pray they all find some kind of closure. That just totally broke my heart especially the last clips of Stacy hugging her mother's shoes.😭😭
Maybe it will give you more reasons to hug your mom a bit tighter next time!
Such a tragic,yet beautiful, and triumphant story. Brought me to tears.
@Stacy Thuy Meredith, I watched another video and this one and still cried both times. My heart ached for you. I was in the US as long as you but I was more fortunate to return and met my mother before she passed away a month or two later.
You are so lucky to have had that opportunity. When I went on this trip, I was under the impression she was still alive and I was meeting her. That was a huge blow to my heart when they told me there.
Wow! Thanks for an excellent video and the very best of luck to all the families.
Some women left their kids in the orphanage cuz they had no choice , there was no food for their kids to survive , others lost their kids while they were running and the orphanage found the kids on the street
thank you so much
I can't even imagine how she and many many others must feel. I am glad to see that she unlike other's found her Family.
Happy Mother's Day to all mothers around the world. Without you, mom, I wouldn't be here. You've gone for 39 yrs now.