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French Tri-Car In Vietnam: 100 Years Ago

Admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:14:50 +0000

Annam 1905 Gabrielle Vasscal Driving Tri-Car. Click to Enlarge

In her book On and Off Duty in Annam (1910) Gabrielle Vassal tells of her and her husband’s rather eventful journey from Nha Trang to Daban in their new Tri-Car.

Not being familiar with the term Tri-Car I was wondering if it would have [...]

READERS CORNER: Saigon and Viet Nam at the turn of the century (1900)

Admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:42:57 +0000

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Title: On and Off Duty in Annam (1910)

Subject: Great “turn of the century (1900)” tour of Viet Nam – Travel, Social Life and Customs.

Author: Gabrielle M. Vassal

Review: This is a great read for anyone with an interest in Viet Nam. The book is the travel narrative [...]

READERS CORNER: Laugther In The Shadows: A CIA Memoir

Admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:10:10 +0000

Saigon Kid Laurie Methven kindly shares this book her father wrote. My Dad was CIA for over 27 years; of course I didn’t find out until I was a teenager. At any rate, he has written a book which is on the lighter side of the CIA called *Laughter in the Shadows* and Vietnam [...]

READERS CORNER

Kenneth R. Yeager — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:35:59 +0000

by Ken Yeager

While the INTERNET allows me to keep up with much that goes on in the United States, what I do miss is the opinions of those whom I value and those are you folks who I shared some of my youth with (my youth being up until a couple of years [...]

Saigon Kid Peter Brownell: Father’s Recollections

Admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:58:34 +0000

Jerry and Lincoln Brownell

As mentioned in a previous Post on our blog, Peter’s father (Lincoln C. Brownell) recently passed away at the age of 96. Over a several year period prior to his passing he compiled his memoirs: personal recollections of a long life around the world and of a family centered [...]

Memoirs of an Insignificant Dragon – Book Review

Admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:05:32 +0000

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, [...]

Youth In Asia by George Baggett – Book Review

Admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:00:27 +0000

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 [...]

American Community School – The Missing Link

Admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:00:34 +0000

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 [...]

Stories Wanted for – SAIGON KIDS – The Book

Admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:15 +0000

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 in [...]

The Book Store On Tu Do Street

Admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:00:35 +0000

While living in Saigon I spent many an afternoon at the book store down on Tu Do Street. It was kind of a gathering place for those of us who were engrossed in exploring the adventures of literature, poem, verse and writing – it was about as close as you could get to a [...]

Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds – Review

Admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:11:51 +0000

When we went to Sagion (and many other places for some of us) as children with our parents we became what has been coined as Third Culture Kids. As Saigon Kids we are part of a group known as the ‘third culture’ of global society.

What defines a TCK (Third Culture Kid) or ATCK [...]

A Great Book!

RandySeely — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:26:01 +0000

Without divulging too much information about the book on this site, I’d like to recommend all Saigon Kids, if they have the chance, read ‘My Father, The Spy,’ written by SaigonKid John H. Richardson, who was in Saigon…in elementary school…in 1962-63. It’s an incredible book…his dad was with the CIA, and some very familiar [...]