A survivor of Operation Babylift
Chris Colgan (center) with his adoptive parents Len and Carol Colgon.
Colgan has worked with Special Olympics participants for 18 years.
April 4, 1975, will forever be etched in my memory.
At a Tulane University convocation on April 23, 1975, President Gerald Ford declared that the war in Vietnam was “finished as far as America is concerned.” But getting those who had supported the U.S. involvement out of the country in those last days as the North Vietnamese Army surrounded Saigon was another matter and there was the issue of the orphans, some who had been fathered by American military men and who would certainly suffer even more following the U.S. exit.