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A Saigon Kid Visits Liechtenstein in 1968

by Bruce Thomas, ACS

During my stint with the US Army in northern Germany, I took a week’s leave in the summer of 1968 and drove south, visiting Bavaria and crossing over into Switzerland. As I wandered eastward, I crossed the Rhine into the neighboring tiny principality of Liechtenstein. Meandering along a small street in […]

Bruce Lobbies Pete To Spice Up His Life With Saigon Kids

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” works […]

Bruce Giza Photo Album

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 it […]

A Saigon Kid for 50 years

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 school […]

Saigon Kid Research Volunteer Wanted

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 1963 […]