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Captain Defied Orders to Rescue Refugees in 1982: Sometimes You Make an Exception

Captain Defied Orders to Rescue Refugees in 1982: Sometimes You Make an Exception
A Vietnamese family faced certain death trying to escape communist rule in a crowded fishing boat that was taking on water as a storm approached. Thankfully, an American captain aboard the USS Morton knows the importance of making an exception and found them in time to rescue the 52 people on board.

A Vietnamese family faced certain death trying to escape communist rule in a crowded fishing boat that was taking on water as a storm approached.

If not for the kindness of an American captain aboard the USS Morton, who knows the importance of making an exception, their daughter would never have been born, and would not be graduating this month from George Washington University law school.

 

(READ the inspiring story in the Washington Post)

 

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