# The Life We Were Given

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- Book: [The Life We Were Given](https://www.bookquiver.com/dana-sachs/the-life-we-were-given) ([The Life We Were Given.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dana-sachs/the-life-we-were-given.md))
- Authors: [Dana Sachs](https://www.bookquiver.com/dana-sachs)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0700-124-0
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2011-07-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U. S. government launched " Operation Babylift," a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children and place them...