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Before Saigon: Bob Layson

by Admin and Richard Turner, Contributing Editor © SaigonKidsAmericanCommunitySchool.Com

Bob Layson (1959-61)

April 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 […]

Saigon Kids Stories: Exile From Saigon

by Admin (ACS)

When I launched this site on April 21, 2008 the first article I posted was *MY JOURNEY TO SAIGON – 49 Years Ago Today*. At the time it was my intention to continue the story of my days in Saigon until my departure. But, it seems other things got in the way […]

Saigon Kids Stories: Past and Present — Spell Checkers, Rock’n Roll, Grammar Checkers, Foreign Languages, SHUT-IT, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Skunks, Possums and Coons, Raining Geckos …

Submitted by: Ken Yeager – (ACS and Dalat School) Frank Stoddard – (ACS) Suellen (Oliver) Campbell – (ACS) Admin – (ACS)

Ken Yeager: What happened to the spell checker?

Admin: The English spelling teacher took it, saying it was *cheating*! – lol – 🙂

Frank Stoddard: Spell Checker, I should have been hired.. Only people […]

Wyoming! Freezing and $1.00 Car Repairs

by Frank Stoddard, ACS Wyoming!! I have always loved Wyoming. It is the place with wide open spaces and where the culture is not to get into other folk’s faces.

In the 60’s, some of you remember that many people were opposed to the Vietnam conflict.

Well, in late 1968 I was driving […]