HO CHI MINH CITY: In the last days before the fall of Saigon, Nguyen Thanh Trung was a pilot with a mission to bomb the Presidential Palace and the US Embassy. Thirty years later, his ambition is to pilot the first direct Vietnam Airlines flight to the United States.
Nguyen Huu Co was a general in the last South Vietnamese Cabinet, and after the war spent 12 years in a communist labour camp. Now, at 81, he's off to Omaha, Nebraska, to see his granddaughter graduate from college this month.