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Decided to start my story at the last chapter – Phu-Bai – Tet Offensive – Hue   Scene – Incident  1 Opens at a meeting in a bar on Tu-do street Saigon with Ron Adams and Ed Kurcina I’m broke again and they’re here to rescue me with a new full-time gig with Page Communications […]

Hallelujah! My jaw dropped as we rounded the small island and a beautiful white mansion came into view. Monday, November 17, 1958 ARRIVING AT MIAMI – THEN ON TO MY NEW ISLAND HOME (Just a few days after graduating from boot camp.) Well, you’ve got to start somewhere, and I think I’ll start pounding away […]

Buddhist Uprising of 1966 OVERVIEW LEARN THE WHOLE STORY  HERE  The Buddhist Uprising of 1966 (Vietnamese: Nổi dậy Phật giáo 1966), or more widely known in Vietnam as the Crisis in Central Vietnam (Vietnamese: Biến động Miền Trung), was a period of civil and military unrest in South Vietnam, largely focused in the I Corps […]

RESEARCH Philip Charles Habib (February 25, 1920 – May 25, 1992) was an American career diplomat active from 1949 to 1987. During his 30-year career as a Foreign Service diplomat.

Brunch with Barry Barry Zorthian, Juspao Mission Head, 1965 – 66 Saigon, Vietnam.  Barry was 46 years old and I was 25 when we met for brunch in the Jungle. (Born in Turkey in 1920 .. raised in New Haven Connecticut, and went to Yale University.  Had a lot in common with my cousins, both […]

The Days of Self Immolation Date The attack by etc. begins _______ May 15, 1966 (I think) It was absolute chaos.  Sixty infantrymen from Prime Minister Nguyen Kao key’s Tiger Division; jeeps, tanks, and all, had just entered central Danang.  The locals were locking up their shops and running frantically in different directions, trying to […]

Potential Book/Series names currently under consideration: My Crazy Life Searching for Me Never a Dull Moment The Choices Organize the stories/incidents Think in terms of a multi-season video series with x number of episodes. For example:  SERIES – Searching for Me  SEASON– Vietnam  EPISODE– “This is the End.”  Surprise, then a few months of Sargent Peppers, […]

  Try not to show his frustration and anger closing their behind you they thought he sorry I would say it’s not Dave anymore it’s I if it was me so I thought I sensed a sense of hate within this small man just a quick flash of it but then again that was to […]

DANANG -1   Jim Hood’s Honda Skyhawk 300cc Escaping into a rice paddy evading a crazy half dressed VC running towards us with a grenade in his hand shouting obscenities’ in Vietnamese until he ran out of breath, and then a grunting Water Buffalo showed up on the scene charging just three feet behind me […]

Painting the room Coral and Steele Gray. Potato Sacks for Curtains and on at a wall piece that I could hang my guitar in front of. When the Old man made his first inspection he blew up at me for my artsy room and I pointed out that he had said that we’d be spending […]