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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 […] 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 […] Vietnam man buys little piece of American dream MARGIE MASON From Associated Press April 13, 2012 8:11 AM EDT HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen flew to the U.S. for the first time, drove to a tiny, frigid trading outpost and bought his own piece of the American dream: Buford, […] 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. […] by Frank Stoddard Part of the many Saigon Kids experience is the “war”. Today (1/31/2012) is the 44th anniversary of the ’68 Tet offensive. I remember it like it was yesterday. Time has really traveled fast. I was in Hue/Phu Bia at the time. All those guys that died back then, […] |
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