Bitter Memories: The Fall of Saigon

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
North Point
North Point Meeting Room

Event Details

Author Tom Glenn was in Saigon as an undercover signals intelligence operative in April 1975 when the North Vietnamese attacked the city. Bitter Memories is his eyewitness account of the Fall of Saigon, of trying to evacuate all the Americans for whom he was responsible in the week leading up to the Fall of Saigon, and his experiences after he flew out of Saigon on a chopper at dusk on April 29, 1975. For his work during the fall of Vietnam, Tom Glenn received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award, his proudest possession.
Event Type(s): Book Club
Age Group(s): Adult