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For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. In April, 1975,

1975, the last helicopter famously left the U.S. embassy in Saigon.

The Vietnam War was over. As well as the destruction and devastation the conflict left

thousands of war babies born of a relationship between American servicemen and Vietnamese women.

My name is Trista Goldberg and I'm one of the estimated 100,000 Amorations born during the war. Part of my job now is to help other Amorations

find their birth families.

How are your children? He's going to have to step aside.

We've got to get some testing done.

It's almost 10-20 and it's going to be a long day.

In Hochiman City, Vietnam... and it's going to be a long day.

In Hochiman City, Vietnam, it's the beginning of the day and I'm taking DNA samples from

amorations.

Hopefully after we collect the DNA today, we'll be able to get some matches with birth fathers and

extended family in the United States. It's almost surreal because to gather that many am raisians in one room and see their expressions,

their feelings, their anticipation regarding the test gives them their My biological parents I actually don't know anything about them. I was

abandoned when I was a baby on the streets of Saigon. I bet you didn't expect a

British accent here. I went to meet Suzanne Tihy and Hook, one of the few Amresians adopted by British parents.

Luckily for me, a policeman found me and took me to the nearest orphanage in Saigon.

You know, my father is a black American because my skin tone is a lot darker.

What do you know about your earlier life before he came to the UK?

Some English nurses from an organization called PVA, which is Project Vietnam Vietnam and what they noticed was that the mixed-race

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