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Bruce Lobbies Pete To Spice Up His Life With Saigon Kids

I received this from Bruce along with Pete’s reply.

Thank you LinkedIn! Another Saigon Kid found and reconnected with our Saigon Kids family.

Bob,

Last week I got one of those intermittent emails from LinkedIn, this time bearing the address of Pete Cheston and his wife. I’m not sure how that “service” [...]

Bruce Giza Photo Album

Bruce Giza has created an Album in our Photo Gallery of pictures of his family in Saigon, including the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

Bruce lived across the street from Bruce Thomas and witnessed the incident when a grenade was thrown into Bruce Thomas’ yard injuring his dad. You can read about [...]

A Saigon Kid for 50 years

By Bruce Thomas

Bruce Thomas 61Fifty years ago my family departed the shores of the United States for Saigon, the capital of what was then South Vietnam. Most of our friends asked, “Where?” At that time, Southeast Asia was not a familiar piece of the globe for Americans.

After I finished my first year of high school in southwest Florida, in May of 1960, we traveled up to Washington, DC, where my father was to be given indoctrination training for his two year posting overseas. He was being loaned by the Federal Aviation Agency to the Agency for International Development. (Throughout his entire career, beginning in 1937 after a stint with the Army, Dad worked for the FAA and its variously-named predecessor and successor agencies.) He was going to be an advisor to the Directorate of Civil Aviation of the Republic of South Vietnam, specializing in electronic equipment used in the field of aviation.

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Saigon Kid Research Volunteer Wanted

UPDATE Feb. 18, 2010

Research Completed

Mystery Solved

Click Here to learn what really happened

As you may have read HERE , Bruce has done considerable research in an attempt to verify the story about a teenager who set himself on fire in Saigon in 1963 – hoping to identify him.

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How To Make Your Avatar and Gravatar

Some of you may have noticed whenever I leave Comments on the Blog a little picture of a Gecko shows up next to my Comment. Or, that recently Bruce added his ACS Class picture to show next to his Comments. And, if you visit many blogs on the Internet, you’ve probably noticed many of the people leaving Comments on blogs have pictures also, while others don’t.

So, what are these and how can I get one – you ask?

The little pictures are Avatars. You might say they are your personal icon. They can be created from any picture.

Now if you tie an Avatar to an email address it becomes a Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar).

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