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submitted by Ken Berger (ACS) For those of us who lived through all the coups (Big Minh, Little Minh, Gen Ky, etc. thought this was interesting. Washington Post Khanh Nguyen, 86, a South Vietnamese general who briefly gained control of the government in a coup and went on to lead a “government in exile” […] by Renee Daniels King, ACS My Dad wrote a very controversial book about his experiences as a soldier, foreign service officer and Tech-Rep in Viet Nam … Undaunted by my Mother’s angst, that the Army might take away his retirement or send him to prison for treason, and numerous literary rejection letters … he published […] by Frank Stoddard, ACS Malcolm Wilde Browne died this week. He took the picture of the monk burning himself by the Saigon Market in 1963. Many of you were probably in Saigon at that time. Do you remember Madame Nhu’s Bar B_que speech? My son and I saw the automobile the monk used to get […] AP Vietnam correspondent George Esper dies at 79 RICHARD PYLE From Associated Press February 03, 2012 7:43 PM EST George Esper, the tenacious Associated Press correspondent who refused to leave his post in the last days of the Vietnam War, remaining behind to cover the fall of Saigon, has died. He was 79. […] The GECKO Year Book – 1960 – Sondra Ann Shankey is our Spanish-speaking friend; Such a pretty girl, an engineer, we cannot comprehend. We see instead for her ahead a modeling career; Or marriage to a rootin' tootin' Spanish buccaneer. I am so very sorry to let the Saigon Kids know that Sondra […] |
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