Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/15
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>From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
>> ...
>> The aftermath was equally chilling. Cambodia ..the killing fields ... the
>> boat people fleeing Vietnam... more loss of innocent lives. Much of what
>> happended is recorded in REQUIEM, a book very precious to me.
>
>Speaking of which, REQUIEM retells the story of Huynh Cong La, a combat
>photographer for AP, who was killed in the war, and how his younger brother
>Huynh Cong Ut subsequently got a job with AP in Saigon, and went on to win
>the Pulitzer with the picture of the little girl burnt by napalm. Ut, is
of course
>Nick Ut, mentioned on this list in the past day or two (Interesting that
he should use
>his given name as his Westernized family/last name). REQUIEM, as well as
the
>Vietnam war, was full of Leica lore, (e.g. Robert Capa)
>
>Another piece of Vietnam War/Leica trivia for you: (apologies to
>longer-time Luggers - I mentioned this a few years back).
> In John Eastland's Leica M Compendium, there is a photo by Tim Page
>of Larry Burrows taking photographs of a funeral by the side of the
>coffin, during the Vietnam War. According to the captions, Burrows was
>using a Leica M3 and 50mm Summicron, which you can clearly in
>the picture. The interesting thing is that Larry Burrows left index
>finger was on the shutter release of the M3.
>
>Larry Burrows is a REQUIEM roster member - he died when his plane was shot
>down in Laos during the ill-fated Lam Son 719 campaign; I remember because
>another classmate of my father also died in the same plane.
>
>Tim Page is editor of REQUIEM, together with Horst Faas. I remember from
>a previous LUG discussion of REQUIEM, some LUG members have met/knew
>Tim Page.
>
>By the way, to my Vietnamese ears, 'Nam has a condescending sound to it.
>I much prefer to hear Vietnam. And of course, I was one of those boat
people.
>
>- Phong
>
I actually hesitated to use the word 'Nam but did so because it is so
commonly used. It was not intended to sound anything less than "Vietnam."
Dan K.
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