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Marjorie Doughty was a USAID wife and mother of a 5 year old son who’s husband was assigned to Viet-nam. The book starts while Marjorie and her son, Jack, are at the American Clinic in Saigon when suddenly the November 1963 Coup breaks out in the streets of Saigon, as they [...] From the streets of America, youths were drafted and sent to war in Vietnam. Inner city youths and farm boys were thrown into a master plan only the American Military could have created. Never having driven a car, John Montgomery became a mechanic. Greg Foster became a Combat Medic. They trained and lived during interesting [...] While researching and writing about the history of our American Community School the trail of information got a bit grey after the 1965 evacuation. About the only information available was the school buildings got hurriedly converted into an Army hospital – Third Field Hospital. Written and pictorial information was limited other then from a military [...] For over 50 years Saigon Kids have existed, yet to this day “our story” has never been told to the world. We are the ‘forgotten ones’ who have been overshadowed by stories about everything under the sun of the Viet-nam era. No books have been written from the perspective of dependant children living [...] |
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