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In the late 1950’s and 1960 we called this swimming hole (and water buffalo washing pit) our ACS Olympic Swimming Pool. It was located across the road from the school. It always seemed to be in use by the local kids – swimming and washing water buffalo – just about anytime of the day you’d […] Another view of Pershing Field sometime after 1965. Dale Williams collection. Submitted by Born To Wander. Click Image for Larger View. Aerial View Circa 1969: Pershing Field on left, 3rd Field Hospital (formerly American Community School) on right. George Lane Collection. Submitted by Born To Wander. Click Image for larger view. The Arizona Daily Star Tuesday, July 11, 2000 Author: Bonnie Henry ———————————————— They were typical American teen-agers: playing softball, listening to old Buddy Holly records – and cowering in the kitchen ’til the machine guns fell silent. For this was Saigon , early ’60s, in a country already […] How the “Saigon Teenager Softball Team” came about! I know this sounds surprising, but Bob, Larry Smith and myself would sometimes ditch school. We would go into the “boy’s room” have a cigarette and wait for a class to start. We would look down the open-air hallway and when it was all clear … […] |
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