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How can Saigon Kids Belong?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

As a Saigon Kid (TCK or ATCK) … How can you belong?… and if you never had a sense of belonging, can you ever get it?
Here is an interesting interview with expert Donna Musil, filmmaker of Brats: Our Journey Home, and Paulette Bethel on Third Culture Kids (which us Saigon Kids are) and “belonging”, presented [...]

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Deja Vu: Rock N Roll - The Early Years (Part 2) “Media Against Rock N Roll”

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Now we continue with Part 2 of the Deja Vu: Rock N Roll - The Early Years series as we take a look at Media Against Rock N Roll. I must say I seriously debated about posting this video, as it is really hard to believe today that our elders and adult leaders back then [...]

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BRATS: Our Journey Home

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The first documentary about growing up military ( and as a Third Culture Kid). Narrated and featuring songs by Kris Kristofferson. Interviews with General Norman Schwarzkopf (in the full version of the film).
As a Saigon Kid (TCK or ATCK) … can YOU relate?!

Can you relate now after watching this? I can, having been both a [...]

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Deja Vu: Rock N Roll - The Early Years (Part 1)

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

This starts a new series taking us back to the beginning of what came to be known as Rock N Rock … the music we grew up listening too. Then we’ll journey forward in time as the Rock N Rock craze sweeps the nation creating the greatest cultural revolution ever known.
This was ‘our music’ … [...]

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Deja Vu: Vietnam Part 16 (Return to Saigon on the Bien Hoa Highway)

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

We continue with Part 16 of the 16 part series Deja Vu: Vietnam. The series of videos is made using Google Earth to focus in on various parts of Saigon and surrounding areas of Vietnam. Then overlaid with video footage filmed in 2007 with ‘fade backs’ of videos and photos going back to various time [...]

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Deja Vu: Vietnam Part 15 (Saigon Surrounding Area)

Friday, September 26th, 2008

We continue with Part 15 of the 16 part series Deja Vu: Vietnam. The series of videos is made using Google Earth to focus in on various parts of Saigon and surrounding areas of Vietnam. Then overlaid with video footage filmed in 2007 with ‘fade backs’ of videos and photos going back to various time [...]

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Deja Vu: Vietnam Part 14 (Saigon and Cho Lon)

Friday, September 19th, 2008

We continue with Part 14of the 16 part series Deja Vu: Vietnam. The series of videos is made using Google Earth to focus in on various parts of Saigon and surrounding areas of Vietnam. Then overlaid with video footage filmed in 2007 with ‘fade backs’ of videos and photos going back to various time points [...]

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Deja Vu: Vietnam Part 13 (Saigon Central City)

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

We continue with Part 13 of the 16 part series Deja Vu: Vietnam. The series of videos is made using Google Earth to focus in on various parts of Saigon and surrounding areas of Vietnam. Then overlaid with video footage filmed in 2007 with ‘fade backs’ of videos and photos going back to various time [...]

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9/11 Tribute

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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Deja Vu: Vietnam Part 12 (Saigon Central City)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

We continue with Part 12 of the 16 part series Deja Vu: Vietnam. The series of videos is made using Google Earth to focus in on various parts of Saigon and surrounding areas of Vietnam. Then overlaid with video footage filmed in 2007 with ‘fade backs’ of videos and photos going back to various time [...]

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Labor Day

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Happy Labor Day to everyone!
I hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day celebrations.
Labor Day, in the United States and Canada, is the celebration of the value and dignity of work, and its role in the American and Canadian way of life. Find out the origins of this holiday that celebrates the successes [...]

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Deja Vu: Vietnam Part 11 (Saigon Central City)

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

We continue with Part 11 of the 16 part series Deja Vu: Vietnam. The series of videos is made using Google Earth to focus in on various parts of Saigon and surrounding areas of Vietnam. Then overlaid with video footage filmed in 2007 with ‘fade backs’ of videos and photos going back to various time [...]

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