“I remember that day clearly when I left Saigon. I left my country in honor that day, not like Thieu who fled later. My cabinet, my troops, the whole diplomatic corps were there at the airport to bid me farewell.”

—  Nguyen Khanh

2000s, A Bag of Earth, A Promise To Keep (2005)

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