![]() ![]() Snow on the tanks rolling over the city walls. The song moving through the city like a widow.Ī white. ![]() The treetops glisten and children listen, the chief of police ![]() a sprig of magnolia expands like a secret heard His cigarette as footsteps fill the square like stonesĪs the traffic guard unstraps his holster.Ī military truck speeds through the intersection, children He fills a teacup with champagne, brings it to her lips. South Vietnam, 29 April 1975: Armed Forces Radio played Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ as a code to begin Operation Frequent Wind, the ultimate evacuation of American civilians and Vietnamese refugees by helicopter during the fall of Saigon. ![]()
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