Below are photos collected from previous Vietnam Motherland tours. If you have photos from your Vietnam experience that you would like to share, please send in JPEG format and we will do our best to post it in our Photo Gallery.

 

REUNIONS

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Group at New Haven in Saigon

Linh reunited with Sisters in Vinh Long

Tia (center) with mom Karen in Danang

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Sr. Mary Nelle Gage reunites with a former childcare worker

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Sara Williams and her mother reunite with Sara's foster mother

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Lisa Winter reviews her birth records with former childcare workers in Sa Dec

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Peik Larson and a Sister from Sacred Heart in Danang 

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Jim Holdsworth, Timothy Mullen and Kimberly Brinker reunite with former childcare workers in Can Tho

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Heather MacDonald and Khanh Oelke reunite with former childcare workers from New Haven

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Lieu Galvin reunites with a Sister from Sacred Heart in Danang

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Tim Hoye reviews his documents with a former childcare worker (R) and a Sister.

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David and Jeffrey Shakow looks through the logbook at Sacred Heart in Danang

 

ON TOUR

Nicole, Linh and Ruth visiting a temple

Sr. Mary Nelle enjoying a cyclo ride

Visiting a local school

Posing with mannequin soldiers at Cu Chi Tunnels.

Sr. Mary Nelle and Nicole at China Beach, Danang

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Parents in Halong Bay

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Dressed up in traditional tailored-made clothes

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King and queen for a day in Hue

Motherland 2004 group at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi

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Experts in using chopsticks

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Flying on Vietnam Airlines

Tia McConnell with a monk

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Hitchhiking on the buffalo

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Tim Hoye and Daniel Bischoff get personal with a snake

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Group finding their way around Saigon

Boat ride on the Mekong River

 

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT THE CRASH SITE OF C-5A PLANE

THAT KILLED 144 PEOPLE ON APRIL 4, 1974

 

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Chinh, former childcare worker carries flowers to the 25th Anniversary Memorial

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Adoptees from 25th Anniversary tour dedicate this cross to the crash victims.

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The group gather in a circle at the crash site for a memorial service

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Sr. Susan McDonald reads a prayer

 

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Survivors from Operation Babylift at the crash site. (L-R) Danielle Bishcoff, Jeffrey Shakow, Jaysun Larson, Fred Siek

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Sr. Susan McDonald along with childcare workers identify parts from the C-5A plane which is now used as an altar

 

ŠVietnam Motherland Tour, 2006-2007.