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Posted for the 40th anniversary of the ultimate days and nights of the Vietnam War, this is actually the suspenseful and moving tale of how John P. Riordan, an assistant manager of Citibank's Saigon branch, devised a daring plan to save 106 Vietnamese from the problems of the Communist takeover. Riordan - who had left the military services behind for a profession in international banking - had not been the type to take remarkable action, but after the North Vietnamese Army closed down in on Saigon in Apr 1975 and it was clear that Riordan's Vietnamese colleagues and their families would be stranded in a city teetering on total collapse, he realized he could not leave them behind. Defying the objections of his superiors and going against the state policy of the United States, Riordan returned into Saigon to save them. In 15 harrowing outings to Saigon's airport terminal, he maneuvered through the bureaucratic shambles, declaring that the Vietnamese were his better half and ratings of children. It had been a ruse that sometimes veered close to inability, yet against all chances the improbable plan been successful. They Are All My Family is a brilliant narrative of 1 man's clever strategy that changed a period of enormous peril into a screen of remarkable courage.
