The other would simplify adoption procedures for and confer U.S. citizenship on VietnameseAmerican children who are orphaned or abandoned. For many years. the debate over the U.S. military presence overshadowed any real discussion over what our role should be toward meeting the very real. serious needs of millions of Vietnamese civiliansboth adults and childrenwho suffered loss of relatives. homes and livelihood as a result of the conflict that was going on around them. As millions were forced into refugee camps or into the already overcrowded citiesand as children were forced to sleep in the streets and beg for food during the dayour attention was on getting our troops out of Vietnam. We have not had military forces in Vietnam for 2 yeas now. but still the conversation of most Americans swirls not around what sort of humanitarian commitment we should have to the people of Vietnam. but rather over the question of supplemental military aid to the government of South Vietnam. The reports we hear daily of Communist forces attacking provincial capitals and hamlets should give us a sharp awareness that. beyond any question of military needs by the South Vietnamese forces. the necessity of humanitarian assistance is increasing markedly each day.