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After leaving Saigon and completing my education – or perhaps better stated ‘when the party life ended’ for me – my first real job was as a journalist and newspaper editor. The work day started early at 6 am so we could meet an 11 am deadline to have every thing down to the Press [...] A RITE OF PASSAGE IN SAIGON In the old days, back before the American war broke out in Vietnam, there was a small American community in the heart of old Saigon. The year was 1960, and I was seventeen years old. The kids all attended a correspondence school set [...] I note from Google Earth the area where the hospital used to be. It looks very different – probably no longer a building of importance. I lived in a place called Hotel Columbia – a couple of blocks from the hospital at what was then called 100 pee Alley. One thing I noted while [...] Look out people more and more of the old “CLOD” gang are showing up and reconnecting with our Saigon Kids family. Clod Mike Parker reconnected with us today. Mike was in Saigon from 1958 to late 1961. I just hung up from a wonderful phone call with Mike. He is doing great. He is living with his [...] |
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