In 2024 I reserved the East Window Gallery for the month of April. I had no idea what would transpire over the next two years, and in many respects - I still don't. The magic reveals itself everyday through connections, gifts, random calls and discoveries in these archives that we will be sharing.

 

Here we are in 2025. It has been an amazing year, a trip to Vietnam with the Motherland Group, the gallery exhibits and gatherings and the Pan Am celebration.

 

As we move forward to the culmination of this 50th year since the end of the war. Sr Mary Nelle and I would like to invite you to Invisible Threads, an adoptee gathering in April 2026 in Boulder, Colorado. It will be a weekend of StorySharing, workshops, films and an exhibit that will be up for the month of April at East Window Gallery. It has been the most incredible experience to find all of you and meet many of you in person over the course of this last year.  

 

The project is moving right along but I realized as we are developing the April event and going through the files, I am needing to pause, and recalibrate to find the core of the story and explore these connections that MAKE the story. I would love to include you in our oral history project. You are all an integral part of operation babylift. Yes, that is lower case - because it includes all who were in Vietnam or cared for us over the course of the war and beyond. It also includes those who we have connected with because of our adoptions, our family, our flights to our destinations, operation babylift and the war.

 

The interviews will be about 30-45 minutes and conducted by Mike Marrotte.  The goal of the talk is to capture your connection to Operation Babylift. This can be a personal experience, or about your family, spouse or friend. They will be recorded on a video platform similar to zoom. The content will be added to the projects that are the foundation of the Operation Babylift Collection, eventually going to a repository for preservation and accessibility. You will have the option to keep it private for FFAC and Operation Babylift internal use only or share it with the adoptee community.  

 

Pick a time and date here  and he will send you login instructions.  

 

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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me:  devaki@operationbabylift.org

 

I would like to thank all of you for supporting this project. 

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