A Reporter Looks Back: The Fall Of Saigon And The Takeover Of Kabul – OpEd

By Dan Southerland*

Watching chaotic scenes of civilians being evacuated in helicopters from Afghanistan takes me back to the last day of the Vietnam War.

It was April 29, 1975 and I was determined to see as much as I could from inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon before boarding a helicopter to leave Vietnam.

I...