The 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon marks the worst defeat in U.S. military history and the beginning of a long journey for 130,000 refugees, many of whom gave up everything they had in Vietnam to start over with almost nothing in a strange land halfway across the world.

Baker & Hostetler IP partner Phong Nguyen in Washington, D.C., was a little more than 7 years old when he joined his parents on a C-130 Hercules flying out of Saigon, while Francis Hoang, a former Williams & Connolly associate and current name partner at Virginia-based Fluet, Huber + Hoang, left Saigon when he was 18 months old on board a C-141 Starlifter as the Viet Cong closed in on the city.

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