‘Children of the April Rain’ Play Reading, Nov. 8, in New York

In honor of Veterans Day and the Vietnam Babylift’s 45th anniversary, Children of the April Rain, a play that deals with that famed humanitarian effort at the end of the American war in Vietnam, will be presented as a staged reading at Club G in West Hempstead, New York, at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 8.

The event is being sponsored by the Long Island Breakfast Club and the play’s directors, Gregg Cajuste and Valentina Janek, along with Lana Mae Noone, the play’s co-author who has worked for decades to honor the service members and civilians who worked to bring the Babylift orphans out of Vietnam in April 1975.