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Pu Lani Carlson, one of nearly 3,000 Vietnamese orphans evacuated from Saigon Vietnam during the last days of the Vietnam war in April 1975 in what was known as “Operation BabyLift”, poses holding a picture of herself as a baby in her Saigon orphanage during an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of "Operation BabyLift" at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Holmdel, New Jersey April 25, 2015. Carlson, birth name Duong thi Kim Lan, was adopted into a single-parent household near Detroit, Michigan where she was raised. She now lives in Dallas, Texas and has returned to her native Vietnam three times within the last 10 years to visit orphanages including her own, and has adopted a Vietnamese orphan girl into her own family. She says the lives of adopted orphans of Vietnam are “like stained glass artwork. It is not until time allows perspective and light shining through that one can see the beauty in the broken places”. (Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters)
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