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2026-04-26 02:29 UTC
To prepare documents for Vietnamese colleagues to leave aboard U.S. military aircraft, Mr. Johnstone found a typewriter in a friend’s apartment. He and Mr. Rosenblatt also obtained departure forms, stamps and consular seals from sympathetic embassy colleagues.
The two men set up in a bowling alley on the military side of the airport ... then shepherded their Vietnamese friends to planes... After five tense days with little food or sleep, the two Americans left Saigon.
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@rowat_c@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 02:31
Once home, ... Mr. Kissinger scolded but did not punish them, and even said that they had done a “wonderful, heroic job,” Mr. Rosenblatt recalled in the oral history, adding that Mr. Kissinger also told them, “We left Vietnam without much honor, but you two guys acted honorably.” ... Mr. Rosenblatt’s father told The Washington Post..., “My son must be guided by the Talmudic teaching: ‘He who saves a human life is as if he saved the whole world.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/world/asia/lionel-rosenblatt-dead.html 5/n