US Army, WWII, Czechoslovakia, and Viet Nam
Lifelong military diplomat and military intelligence; Army attache to President Diem, Viet Nam; evacuated with US personnel to Paris, France after the coup, where he remained and retired some time later, rather than returning to the US.
He married Claudie Durand there, and had three more daughters in France.
His first family by Jan Folsom (from whom he was divorced) included two sons and a daughter, who grew up primarily in the US... except for son David, who lived with his father during his stationing in Viet Nam and attended the American High School there until the coup, evacuating to Paris along with his father, where he lived until his enlistment in the Army.
(Note: said to have been also an aide to Winston Churchill during the London blitz, which although impossible to directly verify decades later, is nevertheless likely true.)
Lifelong military diplomat and military intelligence; Army attache to President Diem, Viet Nam; evacuated with US personnel to Paris, France after the coup, where he remained and retired some time later, rather than returning to the US.
He married Claudie Durand there, and had three more daughters in France.
His first family by Jan Folsom (from whom he was divorced) included two sons and a daughter, who grew up primarily in the US... except for son David, who lived with his father during his stationing in Viet Nam and attended the American High School there until the coup, evacuating to Paris along with his father, where he lived until his enlistment in the Army.
(Note: said to have been also an aide to Winston Churchill during the London blitz, which although impossible to directly verify decades later, is nevertheless likely true.)
US Army, WWII, Czechoslovakia, and Viet Nam
Lifelong military diplomat and military intelligence; Army attache to President Diem, Viet Nam; evacuated with US personnel to Paris, France after the coup, where he remained and retired some time later, rather than returning to the US.
He married Claudie Durand there, and had three more daughters in France.
His first family by Jan Folsom (from whom he was divorced) included two sons and a daughter, who grew up primarily in the US... except for son David, who lived with his father during his stationing in Viet Nam and attended the American High School there until the coup, evacuating to Paris along with his father, where he lived until his enlistment in the Army.
(Note: said to have been also an aide to Winston Churchill during the London blitz, which although impossible to directly verify decades later, is nevertheless likely true.)
Lifelong military diplomat and military intelligence; Army attache to President Diem, Viet Nam; evacuated with US personnel to Paris, France after the coup, where he remained and retired some time later, rather than returning to the US.
He married Claudie Durand there, and had three more daughters in France.
His first family by Jan Folsom (from whom he was divorced) included two sons and a daughter, who grew up primarily in the US... except for son David, who lived with his father during his stationing in Viet Nam and attended the American High School there until the coup, evacuating to Paris along with his father, where he lived until his enlistment in the Army.
(Note: said to have been also an aide to Winston Churchill during the London blitz, which although impossible to directly verify decades later, is nevertheless likely true.)
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