Title/Reference:
SK, a Laotian Vietnam veteran, at his home.
Author: Oudone Khamsisopha
Image No.: 196
Code No.: D04I08-03794
Approx. shoot date:
January 8, 2004
Date uploaded:
March 12, 2005
Orig. File Size: 14.4 MB
Original Media: Digital
Filed under:
People Elders Men Digital 10-20 MB 2004 Laos Other authors Personal Pictures Projects Vientiane
Related images:
Shelter structure.
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Place |
Laos – Vientiane.
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Description |
SK is a 69 years old Vietnam ex-combatant who lives a quiet life in the neighborhood he helped to create, by lending and selling land to migrants from all around the country. He used to be a farmer far North when the war came. He was suddenly called to service and soon after he was put on a plane to Vientiane. The people in charge spoke a strange language, he remembers. One day, in the midst of a combat, the fragment of a bomb grazed his right eye. His fellow soldiers got him out to a safe zone. However, he lost his eye. He says he was lucky, because had that piece struck him frontally, he would have died. He thinks about that and laughs...
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