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ren · Bow Tie Cheesecake Devourer Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 102

How a Vietnam War Orphan became an American Boy...

(finished reading: 2/23/2007)

Complete with photographs of his journey, this book tells the story of a young boy who was nearly left in a country still unsettled while his father returned to the states. The Holt Adoption Agency helped the boy become part of a family. Until the writing of the book, he had not returned to his country of origin. So, it was an experience for his entire family and those that remembered the little boy who left in the last moment possible.

shaw · Java Man Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 1025

The father abandoned him?

ren · Bow Tie Cheesecake Devourer Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 102

Matt Steiner (known as Long when in Vietnam) was born to a Vietnamese mother (who died, by suicide, when he was 5) and American father (who disappeared when he was 2). He was taken to the Holt orphanage when he was 7 by his grandmother when she could no longer afford to care for him. After living there for a while, he was adopted by the Steiner family and flown to the United States during Operation Babylift.