Vietnamese Americans reach out to Afghans

We were them: Thuy Do and her husband Jesse Robbins and their son Fredrick are assisting Afghans fleeing their country. — AP

In the faces of Afghans desperate to leave their country after US forces withdrew, Thuy Do sees her own family decades earlier and thousands of miles away.

A 39-year-old doctor in Seattle, Washington, Do remembers hearing how her parents sought to leave Saigon after Vietnam fell to communist rule in 1975 and the American military airlifted out allies in the final hours.