Shortly after arriving in Saigon my parents and I were invited to dinner at the home of a Chinese man who had befriended my father while he was on Special Forces Operations in Indochina during World War II. During dinner the conversation came around to my desire to learn about Vietnam and the Vietnamese [...]
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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 a [...] Hi Bob, You asked us to answer some of your questions: Where were you when you found out your parents were taking you to Saigon? My dad was stationed at Fort Monroe, VA when he came home one evening to ask us if we wanted to go to Vietnam. We did not know [...] April 21, 1959 somewhere over Southeast Asia on a Pam Am flight. Destination Saigon, Vietnam. The flight crew announced over the P.A. system we would be landing in Saigon in about 1 hour. I left the lounge area where I’d been playing cards with one of the stewardess’s for the past [...] |
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