{"id":22267,"date":"2011-02-14T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22267"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:06:14","slug":"vietnam-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22267","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam love story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110213\/ap_on_re_eu\/eu_vietnam_war_love_story\">a link to a sad love story <\/a>of a journalist headed to Vietnam, a Virgin Mary medallion and the woman he left behind;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was Feb. 10, 1971. Huet, 43, had boarded a South Vietnamese military helicopter in the town of Khe Sanh, near the border with Laos, with a mission to inspect efforts by U.S.-backed forces to sever Viet Cong supply lines.<\/p>\n<p>With him were three other legendary news photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Kent Potter of United Press International and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>In a flash of anti-aircraft fire, the chopper was gunned down. All four photographers were killed, along with seven Vietnamese troops, one of them a military photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the men, the camera equipment, and the military hardware, a tiny disc of gold also tumbled down from the skies above Laos. On one side was a relief of the Virgin Mary; on the other was etched, &#8220;Cecile, nee le 16-6-1947&#8221; \u2014 French for &#8220;born on June 16, 1947.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/multimedia\/collection\/huets-vietnam\/?page=1\">Washington Times<\/a> also memorializes Huet&#8217;s work with a gallery of photos he took before that fateful day.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sends us a link to a sad love story of a journalist headed to Vietnam, &hellip; <a title=\"Vietnam love story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22267\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnam love story<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}