I saw him in Saigon at his last show there. I was so far away I couldn’t tell if it was him or Arnold Schwarzenegger but I was there up in a tree, 14 years old too.
I remember security being much tighter getting on the base because of all the big wigs there. But I got in pretty easily as I went on the base almost every single day to hang out at MACV. It wasn’t long till all the barracks were empty and only military contractors around though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m23x3d2ZzVY
This was the show
Happened to be working the right job and I met him in the early 1980’s. Ever so briefly. I was backstage during his performance.
You sound like you were either a military or diplomatic dependent...I was a military dependent and lived in Yokosuka and Subic during that time period...
Interesting time and place to be a kid, no doubt. Of course, add a few years onto your age, and it might have been a different time and place for sure, with a different set of “interesting” characteristics!
14 years old in Vietnam? Were you a Vietnamese citizen or a child that was brought along with the military?
Fascinating.