Vietnam talk

Melissa Armstrong, lives in the state of Oklahoma, USA, raised by her father, Howard D Aliff, who served in Bien Hoa, Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict. He came back from the war as a different person and lived with post-traumatic stress disorder. He also kept a secret, an Amerasian son named "John" that he fathered during his time overseas. The Vietnamese mother, he met in Bien Hoa. After Howar...

Edmund or just Ed, was born in the Bronx, New York City, NY and is of Puerto Rican heritage. Here's his own words... I was assigned to Tan Son Nhut Air Base in July 1971 and later that month I was introduced to a young lady nicknamed "Phin" by a coworker. A month had gone by and we had signed cohabitation papers which allowed us to go out together in Saigon. That is when I learned her real name wa...

John Caputo, is a dear old friend of Father Founded. He first contacted Father Founded in 2016, asking us for help in locating his lost ones. Like other veterans he did what he could to locate them but all in vain. Here´s John story : John served in Vietnam from 1969 to October 1970, he spend 17 months there. Most of the time in Long Binh, during his time in Vietnam he often went to Saigon, were h...

Steven DeBonis, author of the book " Children of the enemy: Oral Histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and their mothers " Steven worked in refugee camps in Thailand, and later in the Philipine Refugee Processing Center, Bataan, Philipines and he also spend a year in Vietnam too. During hes time in the Philipines, he met many amerasians and their mothers , and he decided to make a book about those pe...

Arthur served in Vietnam during the war. He went to places like Bien Hoa, Saigon ( Tan Son Nhut Ab ) and Hue, during hes time in Vietnam, he met Kim. They felt in love, and he later found she were pregnent and he lost contact with her , after end duty. Like many other servicement, Arthur cam back to USA as a changed man, dealing with Vietnam and what happend to him overthere. Art and painting beca...

I had the pleasure in interview the known American war journalist Jim Laurie. Jim went to Cambodia and Vietnam, during the Vietnam war. He was in Phnom Penh on the 12th april 1975, when the last American helicopters took off from the US Embassy ( Operation Eagle Pull ), and he stayed behind in Saigon when it felt on the 30th april 1975 ( Operation Frequent Wind ). Later he came back to Vietnam and...

nterview with Vietnam veteran Jim Reischl. Jim is a old friend of mine and he had a story to tell. Jim served in Tan Son Nhut Ab, during the time there he met a women and they felt in love. Later jim went back to USA and hes life moved on. But Jim never forgot Vietnam and the women. He contacted us in Father Founded , and we help of Hung in Vietnam, he went back for the first time after the war. B...

Frank G Schafer served in Phu Hiep , Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict. There he met a Vietnamese women "Bonnie" in a village close the military base. They felt in love and before he left back to USA, she told him she was pregnent. They only had little contact after that and he never knew what happend to her Frank went back to Vietnam in 2012, looking for her, but it was in vain. So he decided t...

Interview with Vietnam veteran Robert Elliot. He served in Danang during the war, and left behind a daugther in Vietnam Hear Roberts emotional story for search of hes lost child If you like to reach out to Robert, any ideas about the where about of hes love on or just want to talk to me then feel free to contact me