In recent years, Kazickas has advocated for refugee rights and been president of a family charity supporting education in Lithuania.

[4] After the train reached the end of the line at Dresden, Germany, the family stayed there until the Allied bombing that devastated that city on February 13, 1945.

[5] After the end of the war Kazickas and her parents traveled to the US on the SS Ernie Pyle, a former type C4-class troopship used to transfer displaced persons arriving on US soil on February 18, 1947.

After a period as a volunteer teacher with the Consolata Missionaries in Kenya, during which she climbed Kilimanjaro in tennis shoes at the age of 22, she worked for Look magazine.

Unable to secure official accreditation and payment of expenses she bought her own airline ticket using US$500 she won as a contestant on the gameshow Password.

Kazickas felt guilty that the arrival of the helicopter might have alerted North Vietnamese forces to the location of the patrol; she never wrote an article about the event.

[6] Reporting from within a unit of the 101st Airborne in August the party came under artillery fire that caused heavy casualties, Kazickas put away her camera and volunteered to help provide medical aid to the wounded.

Kazickas knew that as a woman she was often able to persuade the male military helicopter pilots to take her aboard without official sanction and so reached Khe Sanh on March 7.

With a colleague, Lynn Sherr, she established the Liberated Women's Appointment Calendar and Survival Handbook, which had a humorous tone.

[15] On December 6, 1981, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington DC, Kazickas married Roger Altman,[1] investment banker and then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Carter.