9 News takes a Virginia family back to their first home after arriving in the U.S. following the fall of Saigon.

Thirty years ago today, Zim Win Dang was frantically packing bags in her Saigon home. The communist North Vietnamese troops were coming.

Her husband, a Captain in the South Vietnamese Navy, told her it was time to leave their homeland. Saigon was going to fall.

She and the children were meeting him at his ship. They were going to America.

9 News' Bruce Leshan has more on the incredible journey of one Virginia family.

Bruce Leshan's report

We took the Dang family back to their first home in America. It?s building number T-6-13 at the Fort Indiantown Gap Military Post in Pennsylvania.

They haven't been here since 1975.

The Dangs were one of the thousands of families who called the Fort home after the fall of Saigon. That's when 22,000 refugees, who managed to escape from South Vietnam, stepped off planes at Harrisburg International Airport, and into uncertainty.

"We were so worried", says Diem Nguyen Dang, who was 34 with four small children.

The second youngest of the Dang children was eight-years old when she arrived at the camp.

They also had classes in English and the American way.

There were even lessons about rattle snakes, skunks and the cold weather in this strange new land.

Time has taken its toll on the aging World War II buildings the Dangs once called home. America still struggles with the ghosts and the guilt of Vietnam. But the America of the Dangs is without question the legendary land of hope and opportunity.

The Dangs work for the U.S government. Their children are doctors, lawyers and engineers. Are the Dangs grateful? You bet they are!

Click on video to see Bruce Leshan's report.