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Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Yasminammer.

And I'm Andrea Aswahai. Wars have obvious consequences and to get a sense of how

devastating a war is or was we usually measure that by numbers, like how many casualties or injuries and how long did it last.

But wars leave behind other deep scars.

Many much more difficult to count, but they're no less painful.

In this week's kind world, we have a story of the sacrifice one woman was forced to make, and a stranger's mission to help her regain what she lost. When Tidep was on the front lines during the Vietnam War, fighting a different kind of battle.

She was the sole provider for her sick father and four younger sisters.

And she was trying to keep her own daughter alive.

Because I was afraid of many people in North Vietnam

telling me that if I don't say my baby away they will come in here

and maybe she will be killed.

Dab's daughter Fung Mai or Mai was also the daughter of an American sergeant named Joe O'Neill, who

Depp met at the Army base where she worked. They had a romantic relationship. But in 1973, the U.S. ordered all of its troops out of Vietnam.

Joe went back to America.

Depp, who was two months pregnant, was left behind.

Then she found herself with an impossible decision.

I was crying a lot, you know, to make up my mind for her to go to America.

Depp believed she had to get her child out of South Vietnam

because of rumors that communist troops were targeting

biracial children. They considered them the children of traders. She

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