Letters Story aired: Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Our anniversary coverage of the fall of Saigon garnered a lot of response a note and some photographs from Alex Cheimets. (Click on the link below to see his photos.)
Alex says he visited the roof of the former Saigon U.S. Embassy in the 90s as the Vietnamese national oil company was preparing to hand the building back over to the U.S. He says he managed to get a guard to take him on a guided tour, and took pictures of sand bags, still on the roof, falling apart after years of exposure.
A desk was still in the elevator shaft. The elevator appeared to have been out of order since the evacuation 20 years earlier.
Alex says the building has since been taken down and a new us consulate built in its place.
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