The Veterans Breakfast Club welcomes Ross Meador, author of Carried Away: A Memoir of Rescue and Survival Among the Orphans of the Viet Nam War.
Ross Meador’s story is not your typical Vietnam War narrative. In 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, 19-year-old Ross was living in Vietnam. Amid the chaos and collapse of the South Vietnamese government, Ross became swept up in the desperate efforts to evacuate and protect hundreds of orphaned children left behind in the final days of the war.
Carried Away recounts Meador’s personal experience as a teenager witnessing—and helping with—what became known as Operation Babylift, the humanitarian effort to rescue thousands of Vietnamese orphans. But Meador’s account digs deeper. His story is one of survival, identity, moral conflict, and healing, all told with the clarity of a witness who saw the war not from the battlefield, but from the margins—among the displaced, forgotten, and frightened.
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We’re grateful to UPMC for Life for sponsoring this event!
