AURORA, CO – APRIL 25: At the annual awards ceremony held by the State Department in Washington D.C. in June 1965 Barbara A. Robbins, along with others, was honored for her service and received the newly designated honor “the Secretaries Award”. The women standing worked at the embassy in Saigon at the time of Barbara’s death. Barbara A. Robbins was killed in the bombing of the U.S Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam on March 30, 1965. Barbara, 21, was working as a secretary at the embassy when a terrorist detonated a bomb next to the embassy. (Photo by Joanna B. Pinneo/For The Washington Post)
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