He was housed at an orphanage till the government closed it. Then he managed to survive in the streets for a while.
6 seconds sound clip from Airwolf (1984) - Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n (S1.E2) action military drama television series.
You can hear this line at 00:22:03.949 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- I guess that means I talked too much.
- Mothers have been known to do that.
- We checked and found that the boy...
- Ho Minh.
- The kid doesn't have half a chance. Can't you get him out of there?
- It seems he is now a ward of the USSR. With the cooperation of the VC government.
- Ho Minh has been transported to a Russian air base at Omrylkot, Russia.
- So what?
- Omrylkot is only 180 miles from Alaska.
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