Last week, we were honored to have ARVN veteran Chieu Le come and tell his story of where he was during the Fall of Saigon. Chieu was a 25-year-old helicopter pilot in 1975, and he wasn’t expecting to have to flee Vietnam—he was expecting to fight. Listen to his story.

Archival footage in this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGsK8Wkhbp8&t=0s
archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.1938171

Music: Up by Alistair Sung via MusicBed.com

Video by Ellie DePastino