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by Admin Enjoy a mash up of photographs and movie clips taken during the years of 1955 through 1966 – in no particular order. I’m sure you’ll see many sights you knew well. Who can spot the tailor shop that made our first Teenagers base ball team uniforms? Enjoy the memories … Best Viewed […] by Admin (ACS) During World War II my dad was a Special Forces Marine in the Pacific Theater. At the end of the war and for about a year thereafter he went to Vietnam and other places throughout the Pacific and Asia to root out the Japanese who hadn’t heard the war was over; […] On November 1, 1963 (49 years ago today), President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was deposed by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with his handling of both the Buddhist crisis and the Vietcong threat. I’m sure those Saigon Kids who were in Saigon at the time have […] This video is for Saigon Kids (and others) who served their Country in the Vietnam War. Archival footage from the Vietnam War set to the wonderful Billy Joel song, “Goodnight Saigon.” A short “documentary” about the fall of Saigon and the role that the Bing Crosby song, “White Christmas” played in this historic event. The recording was broadcast on the radio on April 30, 1975, as a secret, pre-arranged signal precipitating the U.S. evacuation of Saigon. […] |
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