More than 1000 students from Saigon's leading high school, most of them children of public servants and military officers, were sent to re-education camps.
The Irizarrys are veteran relocators, having moved five times during their 18-year marriage and many times more as the children of military officers.
Some babies born in prison reportedly were registered as children of military and police officers.
He also took the children of deceased officers of his army under his protection, and offered them shelter, food and education.
His accounts stress cases in which children of former imperial officers and peasants were held as hostages and sometimes shot during the civil war.
A total of 17 out of 85 children of officers who served at Kvikk have been born with birth defects.
It was a characteristic feature of colonial society that the children of European administrative officers were entrusted to the care of native women.
Special orphanages were built exclusively for children of officers and soldiers.
Lambert's life experience as an Army wife provided the background and settings for many of her books about the lives of teenage children of military officers.
Tennis courts on which the children of high-ranking officers and generals play tennis during the night.
