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Ross Meador
Ross Meador is the author of Carried Away: A Memoir of Rescue and Survival Among the Orphans of the Viet Nam War. Profoundly moved by the suffering of Vietnamese war orphans while growing up during the Vietnam War, he traveled to South Vietnam at just 19 years old with the Friends of Children of Viet Nam (FCVN), helping deliver supplies to orphanages, finding families for hundreds of children, and playing a key role in Operation Babylift before being evacuated from the U.S. Embassy rooftop in
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