Download or read book The Life We Were Given written by Dana Sachs and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1975, the U.S. government evacuated nearly 3,000 displaced Vietnamese children just before the fall of Saigon. Sachs examines the rescue more carefully, revealing how a single public-policy gesture irrevocably altered thousands of lives, not always for the better.