text: This is a story about a boy named Long, who life will change with the coming of war. 
  
  
  But first, let's focus on the Vietnam War itself. 
  
  
  The Vietnam war happened after the French's failed attempt to gain control of the country. The United States then took over for them. In 1954, when the French left, Vietnam split into two after a conflict over who would control the country. It was the communist North, and the independent South. The United States sided with the South.
  
  
   
  > You numerical Facts
  -At the beginning of the 20th century, 90% of war casualties were soldiers, by the last decade of that century that 90% were of civilians instead. 
  
  
  -Many of those 90% casualties were children.
  
  
  -More than a million South Vietnamese were orphaned by the war, and only a few thousand made it to adoptive families.
  
  
  (in the book Escape From Saigon)
  > Back to 'A Note to Readers.'
  This is a story about a boy named Long, who life will change with the coming of war. 
  
  
  But first, let's focus on the Vietnam War itself. 
  
  
  The Vietnam war happened after the French's failed attempt to gain control of the country. The United States then took over for them. In 1954, when the French left, Vietnam split into two after a conflict over who would control the country. It was the communist North, and the independent South. The United States sided with the South.
  
  
   