Do you guys remember that today is the holiday on which the Vietnamese commemorated the day the President took office on July 7, 1954. Hence Double Seven Day – the seventh day of the seventh month. Every building in Saigon from the large government houses to the little thatch huts flew the Vietnamese [...]
It seems our Blog has passed some mile stones.
Alice made the “1200-th” Comment a couple days ago. Art made the 1201-st Comment today.
This Post is the 300th post since we started our Blog a little over a year ago (April 21, 2008).
Way to go Saigon Kids. Keep those Posts and Comment of your Saigon [...]
Caroling was a big event on Christmas Eve for a lot of the ACHS kids. We met at the Kinh Do and then hopped on buses. I have forgotten where all we went ( I was reminded recently that in 1962 we went to the ambassador’s house and he invited us in to [...]
Today, December 10, is the anniversary of my family’s arrival in Saigon (sorry I missed your inaugural blog post, Bob). It was 1962 and I was 14 years old and thrilled to finally have a “home” again. We had been living a pretty nomadic existence for most of that year – compliments of [...]
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