** FILE ** In this Tuesday, June 27, 2000, file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, opens the new Wellcome Wing of London 's Science Museum with Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, left and Phan Thi Kim Phuc, center. Phuc was the main subject in Ut's iconic image of the aftermath of a June 8, 1972, napalm attack in Vietnam. The image is featured in the museum. (AP Photo/Ian Jones, Pool)
"I've lost uncles and friends and everything" to combat, says Mike Evangelho of Brick, N.J., making his way across Memorial Bridge at the start of Sunday's Rolling Thunder rally. Although he was unable to serve in the military because of poor eyesight, this is the fifth year he has ridden, and he brought along a friend who served in Vietnam. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
"I've lost uncles and friends and everything" to combat, says Mike Evangelho of Brick, N.J., making his way across Memorial Bridge at the start of Sunday's Rolling Thunder rally. Although he was unable to serve in the military because of poor eyesight, this is the fifth year he has ridden, and he brought along a friend who served in Vietnam. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Newly naturalized citizen Vy Tuong Nguyen, of Vietnam, shakes hands with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright after receiving her certificate of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in NW Washington, Michael "Trumpet" Willis pays homage to colleagues who died during the Vietnam war as the 18th annual Rolling Thunder ride takes place, Sunday, May 29, 2005. Willis served in Vietnam in 1971. ( Allison Shelley / The Washington Times )
In this March 31, 2012 photo, Sharon Brooks shows a room meant for a child she was planning to adopt in New York. Brooks, 56, waited three and a half years for the release of a little girl in Vietnam after the U.S. froze adoptions there in 2008 amid serious fraud concerns. Finally, in January, Brooks learned the child she had named Akira-Li would instead be adopted by a Vietnamese family. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
In this March 31, 2012 photo, items meant for Akira-Li, a child Sharon Brooks was planning to adopt, are shown at her house in New York. Brooks, 56, waited three and a half years for the release of a little girl in Vietnam after the U.S. froze adoptions there in 2008 amid serious fraud concerns. Finally, in January, Brooks learned the child she had named Akira-Li would instead be adopted by a Vietnamese family. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
A towel with Akira-Li's name on it sits next to her picture in the New York home of Sharon Brooks, 56, who also bought other things for the child she hoped to adopt from Vietnam. But after 3 1/2 years of waiting because the U.S. froze adoptions there amid fraud concerns, Ms. Brooks (below) learned the girl would instead be adopted by a Vietnamese family. (Associated Press)
In this March 31, 2012 photo, Sharon Brooks shows a room meant for a child she was planning to adopt in New York. Brooks, 56, waited three and a half years for the release of a little girl in Vietnam after the U.S. froze adoptions there in 2008 amid serious fraud concerns. Finally, in January, Brooks learned the child she had named Akira-Li would instead be adopted by a Vietnamese family. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
