Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Bill, You have certainly led a full life.? Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. On 3/13/20 10:43 AM, Bill Clough via LUG wrote: > In late 1966 I was sent on temporary active duty to Thailand, and thus > began the adventure of my life. I was smuggled into the country by the U.S. > Navy with ambassadorial approval, as an enlisted sailor given the authority > of a Lt. Colonel and given Air America at my disposal. > > All this to produce a slide-show documentary on Navy Seabee civic > action > programs in rural Thailand that was the first line of defense against > communist guerrilla excursions into the country. The documentary was to be > shown before a congressional funding committee. > > I was 26. > > Nothing I have done since has matched this journalistic adventure, > including the White House. > > One strong facet of the programs was medical. These children raced > after > the medical corpsman?s jeep as he left a border village in southeast > Thailand. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Thai+village+children_+January+1967.jpg.html > > > _Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA