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Kim Delevett, of San Jose, with a 1975 photograph taken in Vietnam of her as a toddler, center front, her mother, right, brother, center, and a cousin, before they fled the war-torn country, at her San Jose home on April 3, 2025. Delevett was adopted by an American family in Florida but grew up feeling disconnected both from her heritage and her adopted community. Rediscovering her country and her family showed her the power of connecting with others who touched the same piece of history. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)Her quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have loaded her onto a C-130 and life in America.
Originally published at Jennifer Brookland