The Central Pennsylvania Vietnam Round Table will meet on Thursday, Sept. 8, at Vietnam Veterans of America, Michael J. Novosel MOH Capital Chapter 542, 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg, at 7:30 p.m.

Following a brief business meeting, Lei Williams from Bowmansville in Lancaster County will discuss her experiences growing up in South Vietnam. Her father was an American pilot and her mother was Vietnamese. On April 29, 1975, one day prior to the fall of South Vietnam's military, Williams' mother took Lei, 5, and her younger sister to an evacuation site near their home in Saigon.

The girls were taken by helicopter to a U.S. Navy ship in the South China Sea. Their mother was not able to make the trip with them. Lei and her sister spent several weeks at Fort Chafee, Ark., before they were adopted by an American family in Central City, Neb.

Williams is now an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at Garden Spot High School in New Holland. She has organized three trips to Vietnam: student trips in 2015 and 2019 and a trip for veterans of the Vietnam War this past June.

The meeting is open to the public. Donations will be accepted. For more information, contact Richard Burton at 717-545-2336 or centralpavietnamrt@verizon.net or visit http://www.centralpavietnamroundtable.com.