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Kinh-Do Bombing, Sept. 1963 & Other Memory Flashes

Mary-Anne (Purvis) Sullivan here. Saigon 1962-1964 (ACS grades 5 & 6).

I was researching the first bombing in hopes of getting some dates clear and luckily/happily stumbled upon this cite, decided to register. I read several of the blog comments on the first bombing of the movie theater and remember it a bit differently [...]

ACS Newsletters: The Foxy Chronicle – 1961

The first newsletter published at American Community School was The Foxy Chronicle. Only three issues were published. The school newsletter then changed to the Bamboo Beacon.

A new category has been added to the site Menu over there on the right “ACS Library”. The Foxy Chronicle 1961 newsletters are in the library in eBook [...]

Mrs. Shaffer and The Sounds of Music

While we all seem to be suddenly wandering around through our various 60s memories I want to thank Mrs. Harrison Shaffer for her many contributions to those memories. Remember South Pacific, anyone???? and the half dozen or so of us sweeeet young ladies dressed in sailor uniforms singin’ our hearts out to the tune [...]

Saigon Kids in Canada: Happy Thanksgiving!

For Saigon Kids living in Canada today is Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, or Turkey Day (Canadian French: Action de grâce). An annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. Some people thank God for this bounty. The holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in [...]

Happy Columbus Day! (Thanksgiving – Canada)

Happy Columbus Day to everyone!

What a difference 50 plus years has made in the meaning and celebration of Columbus Day. I remember when I was a kid ( 1st and 2nd grades) in a little one room school house in the middle of a corn field at Platte Woods, MO – Columbus Day [...]