He may have made one of the toughest choices that anyone could ever make:
Nguyễn Hữu Hạnh (July 26, 1926 – September 29, 2019) was a Vietnamese military officer who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, rising to the rank of Brigadier General. His first son Second Lieutenant Nguyen Huu Tai, born in 1948, was killed in a raid on Chau Thanh district, Tien Giang province.
Hạnh assisted South Vietnam President Dương Văn Minh in the announcement that there would be a transfer of power to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam.
Hạnh died on 29 September 2019, aged 93.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB...E1%BA%A1nh
Nguyễn Hữu Hạnh (July 26, 1926 – September 29, 2019) was a Vietnamese military officer who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, rising to the rank of Brigadier General. His first son Second Lieutenant Nguyen Huu Tai, born in 1948, was killed in a raid on Chau Thanh district, Tien Giang province.
Hạnh assisted South Vietnam President Dương Văn Minh in the announcement that there would be a transfer of power to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam.
Hạnh died on 29 September 2019, aged 93.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB...E1%BA%A1nh
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.