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The narrator is at the airport. While awaiting the plane that will take him out of Saigon and to the United States, he chats with a triumvirate of Saigon prostitutes who are also applying for refugee status. They were rescued by an American serviceman named Sarge and brought to the airport, supposedly as entertainment for on-duty servicemen. Sarge’s actual intention was to get these women, and as many other prostitutes as he could, a seat on a plane out of the country.
Nguyen describes the place of the prostitutes within the military-industrial complex, which exploits and discards bodies for multiple…