Their destination: Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. Elliott and her family moved to Saigon, where years later she worked for the RAND corporation interviewing North Vietnamese prisoners of war. Though Elliott was young when she left Hanoi, she remembers the city as "a very quiet, romantic city, very old, full of history and tradition." The transformation of Hanoi didn't begin until 1986, more than a decade after Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces. But Elliott said on every trip she made to Hanoi after her first, the city would get "better and better."

Source: CNN February 26, 2019 21:52 UTC