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In April 1975, the Vietnam War was as good as over, and the communists had won. The American military was gone, save for a tiny contingent of 50 Marines, with the South Vietnam capital of Saigon surrounded by both encroaching Viet Cong rebels and the North Vietnamese Army. The South Vietnamese in Saigon who had “collaborated” with the enemy — such as workers at the capitalist institution Chase Bank — would be executed, or at the very least, sent to reeducation camps, which had happened in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge took power. The 53 employees of the Saigon branch...
