A Vietnam War Love Affair, a Baby, and 48 Years Later, a Reunion

VOANews: A Vietnam War Love Affair, a Baby, and 48 Years Later, a Reunion

RIVERDALE, GEORGIA — The first time Huỳnh Thị Chút set foot in the United States, she came to see Gary Wittig, the man she met in Danang during the height of the Vietnam War. The daughter that Chút had with Wittig, Nguyễn Thị Kim Nga, flew from her Nebraska home of 17 years to meet her father’s family in a suburb of Atlanta, in the southeastern U.S. state of Georgia. With a newfound cousin, Nga met her mother at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson international airport.

After a drive to the suburbs, Chút reunited with Wittig, now frail and on oxygen, 48 years after they parted.....(Read more)