That is what life was like in Vietnam for Amerasian children, the offspring of Vietnamese mothers and American soldiers.
But the rest of the children, many of them the offspring of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers, survived their journeys.
The 1965 photograph shows a Vietnamese mother and children wading across a river to escape a US bombing.
The American father of a son born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother challenged the law as violating his equal protection rights.
The film cuts back and forth between Heidi and her Vietnamese mother.
Kien was born to a Vietnamese mother from a once wealthy family and an American civil engineer.
We would like to demand that Vietnamese mothers, too, can go to burn incense sticks on their sons' graves.
Also arriving in the last few months are teen-agers born to Vietnamese mothers and G.I. fathers.
She was born in Montreal to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother.
Nothing is said about the Vietnamese mothers who sought the return of their children but were blocked by American courts.