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CLASS OF 1961
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Austin High SchoolClass of 1961
Chicago, IL

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My wife and I live in Falls Church, Virginia. We met in South Viet-Nam while serving on the same MACV/CORDS Advisory Team in the Mekong Delta. We married in 1972 and remained in South Viet-Nam until the fall of Saigon in 1975. We have one son (a computer security engineer), a daughter-in-law (an attorney), and three grand-kids (two boys aged 10 and 8, and a girl aged 5).. I am retired from the United States Foreign Service. Lived/worked overseas for 30+ years, primarily in Africa (9 years) and Southeast Asia (16 years). Favorite place: Singapore. Evacuated from Saigon during the fall of South Viet-Nam in April, 1975; evacuated from N'Djamena, Chad by the French Foreign Legion in 1979 during a Muslim - Christian civil-war; ordered out of Indonesia in late 2002 after terror bombings in Bali and Jakarta and daily anti-American demonstrations. My wife...Expand for more
, however, remained in Jakarta as an essential American Embassy employee. My wife retired from the Foreign Service in 2016 but remains on call for "special" short-term (one year or less), overseas assignments. I recently followed her as she worked in Rangoon, Burma (Yangon, Myanmar) in 2017, and in Singapore in 2018. (We also lived in Singapore from 2003 - 2007). Hobbies: Playing with my grand-kids, working in the yard (whenever its warm), reading history books, watching Fox News (Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity), One America News, Newsmax TV, and New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television, as well as listening to Chris Plante, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. Favorite poem: Invictus by William Ernest Henley. Favorite films: Romance of the Three Kingdoms and My Fair Princess (Return of the Pearl Princess). Languages: Vietnamese, French, Indonesian and Thai.
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Family in Virginia -2016
Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi- 2005
The Last Hurrah - Bangkok 2003
Border of Nepal and Tibet 1983
Himalayan Trek 1984 near Tibet border
Emmet School
Borobudur, Yogyajakarta, Indonesia 2003
Angkor Wat, Cambodia 2003
USMC Ball
South Korean Police, Busan, South Korea 2005
USS Carl Vinson, CVN-70
POTUS George W. Bush 2007
POTUS William J Clinton - Saigon - 2000
USMC Ball
July 4th 2003 - Marriott Hotel, Jakarta
USS Blue Ridge 2009
Terror Club 2006
USMC Ball Singapore 2006
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