Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDB1B8.C67E32A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Since his name comes up occasionally and recently in fact, I thought I = would mention the death of=20 Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the person pictured in Adams photo executing the = Viet Cong sniper on the street in Saigon. I had the pleasure of meeting Gen. Loan on several occasions, and if = everyone knew the truth behind the photo and had been able to know and = talk to the General, they would have found, as I did, that he was a = gentelman and a patriot in a difficult time and place in history. He died at age 67 from cancer. Tom - ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDB1B8.C67E32A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Since his name comes up occasionally = and=20 recently in fact, I thought I would mention the death of = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the person = pictured in=20 Adams photo executing the Viet Cong sniper on the street in = Saigon.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I had the pleasure of meeting Gen. = Loan on=20 several occasions, and if everyone knew the truth behind the photo and = had been=20 able to know and talk to the General, they would have found, as I did, = that he=20 was a gentelman and a patriot in a difficult time and place in=20 history.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>He died at age 67 from = cancer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Tom</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDB1B8.C67E32A0--