By the Tran Sisters | Tran Family History Project | May 2026 A Story of War, Silence, and the Long Road Home INTRODUCTION On April 30, 1975, the last helicopter lifted off a rooftop in Saigon. Among the thousands swept up in that desperate final chapter of the Vietnam War was our father — a South Vietnamese Intelligence officer whose work in Vietnam had defined years of his life. In the chaos of the fall, he departed alongside our brother Hung, leaving behind a country, a fam
