She Wandered Off
The mother and her daughters were given the opportunity to be airlifted out of Saigon before it was going to be overrun by the North Vietnamese. As the time to evacuate approached, and the helicopter was being prepared, Rose had somehow wandered off and disappeared into the chaos. As you can imagine, her mother went into a complete panic.
Source: pennlive.com
Berni remembers her mother was looking frantically for Rose but simply couldn’t find her. Among the panic of not finding her child was the ticking clock – the helicopter was about to take off. With time running out, her mother faced a terrible choice: one that no mother would ever want to have to face and one that would haunt everyone involved for the rest of their lives.