Many Amerasian children speak poor English because Japanese is the primary language at home.
The bases closed in 1992 leaving behind thousands of Amerasian children.
In talks with American officials, the Vietnamese identified 6,000 additional Amerasian children.
Amerasian children in Vietnam, especially those whose fathers were black, suffer brutal ostracism.
Officials say there may be 10,000 Amerasian children in the country, most of them in their middle to late teens.
Amerasian children hung around outside the hotels.
Amerasian children are also often stigmatized as illegitimate.
In a special program, more than 11,000 Amerasian children, who face much discrimination in Vietnam, and their families have come here in the last year.
Once here, the counterfeit family, having obtained entry to the country, sometimes compounded the rejection by abandoning its Amerasian child.
These would be followed by the "boat people," Amerasian children, and former political prisoners.