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Bruce Lobbies Pete To Spice Up His Life With Saigon Kids

Admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:32:41 +0000

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

Admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:24:51 +0000

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

Bruce Thomas — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:34:17 +0000

By Bruce Thomas

Fifty 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 [...]

Saigon Kid Research Volunteer Wanted

Admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:01:14 +0000

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 [...]

How To Make Your Avatar and Gravatar

Admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:21:52 +0000

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 [...]

American Community School – Now In Wikipedia

Admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:22:25 +0000

Our American Community School in Saigon has now joined the ranks of the world’s largest encyclopedia – Wikepedia.

The article documents the history of ACS from the early days of home schooling through closing of the school in 1965, conversion to 3rd Field Hospital to present day usage of the compound buildings.

While Bruce [...]

American Boyscouts in Nha Trang

Bruce Thomas — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:52:11 +0000

I found this picture in the collection of photos from the French journalist Francois Sully that are online thru the library at the Univ. of Massachusetts. It’s undated, but says it’s American Boyscouts at Nha Trang. I wonder if Harrison Shaffer is one of those pictured.

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Francois Sully photographs of Vietnam

Bruce Thomas — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:49:21 +0000

A collection of about 1,000 b&w photos taken by a French journalist in Saigon (principally early to middle 1960s) is available online at the Healey Library of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Most are military related, some with U.S. military men identified by name, from NCOs up through Gen. Westmoreland. But there are also [...]

Madame Quinquet

Bruce Thomas — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:33:52 +0000

I look at her pictures in the 1961 Gecko, and have a memory of her that day, serious and determined as she walked towards her classroom, her heels clicking on the tiles. She strode down the colonnade that connected the several wings of classrooms at ACS. Madame Quinquet was arriving, a few minutes late [...]