anything what happened in saigon was how was your life that when i left i was all that afterward marber and then all that not all the enough to understand everything so when you sit down to write you can you have the freedom to reinvent you know the stories between the little dots that you have of the memories but this saw visit images and children i think you have a very tunnel vision of things right and so i remember the smell of the kitchen the women they would dress have they moved around and you also have images of those tanks coming into town we only feel the fear of everybody and the worries and and on the day that we fled of course my parents couldn't tell us that we were fleeing right but the. it was so dense that you can you know you know without anybody say anything and to have certainly all of the adults in the house to be warmer you know to whisper they never talk anymore. came to his childhood in saigon ended in 1975 when south viet nam fell to the communist north after a 20 year war the home city was renamed the main city. the 1500000 people who fled across the south chin