230 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY DR. TOM GLENN AUTHOR, VETERAN Columbia, MD Having honorably served his country since 1958 in the United States Army and as an employee of the National Security Agency (NSA), Dr. Tom Glenn has had multiple careers as an author, linguist, musician, cryptologist, government executive and caretaker for the dying. After he completed his military service, the NSA hired him because he was comfortable in the three languages of Vietnam — Vietnamese, Chinese and French — and sent hm to Vietnam for the first time in 1962. For the next 13 years, he spent more time in Vietnam than he did in the United States. His job was supporting combat forces on the battlefield with information derived from intercepting and exploiting the radio communications of the invading North Vietnamese. When Vietnam fell in April 1975, he escaped under fire from Saigon after the North Vietnamese were already in the streets of the city. Dr. Glenn retired from government service as early as he could to write full time. He now has six books of fiction and 17 short stories in print. His best-known work, his 2017 novel, “Last of the Annamese,” set during the fall of Saigon, has won a series of awards, most recently including the Human
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