After years of searching, a chief mate sailor who saved 51 Vietnamese refugees in 1978 was reunited with a group of them 44 years later.
Dam said that several ships had passed by and did not rescue the group. A chief mate sailor on a container ship, however, saw the lost fishing boat and convinced his captain to bring all 51 refugees aboard to safety. Pedersen spent several years trying to find the group and finally made a breakthrough when his neighbor tracked down one of the refugees, Nguyen Minh, on a list of names that the 88-year-old kept of all 51 people. Minh was the first to reunite with Pedersen in 2018.
Two other refugees, Truong Anh, who is now an attorney for Los Angeles, and his brother Van, were 4 and 9 years old when escaping with the group in 1978. Truong recounted the moment the ship’s crew brought him and the other refugees onto the container ship.
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