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Similarities seen between fall of Kabul and the fall of Saigon in 1975

Desperate South Vietnamese citizens try to scale the walls of the American Embassy in 1975 Source: Getty
Two Americans who were in Saigon spoke about the chaos and how they bent and broke the rules to get as many people out as they could.
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